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| Police examine the site of an explosion at Dilsukh Nagar in the southern
Indian city of Hyderabad February 21, 2013. Two bombs placed on
bicycles exploded in a crowded market-place in Hyderabad on Thursday,
and the federal home minister said at least 11 people were killed and 50
wounded.
(Reuters) - Two
bombs placed on bicycles exploded in a crowded market-place in the
southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Thursday, and the federal home
minister said at least 11 people were killed and 50 wounded.
All major cities in the country
were placed on high alert, television channels said, adding that as
many as 15 people may have been killed in the explosions.
Hyderabad is a major IT center in India, only second to Bangalore. Microsoft and Google have major centers in the city.
"Both
blasts took place within a radius of 150 meters," federal Home
(Interior) Minister Sushil Shinde told reporters, adding the explosives
were placed on bicycles parked in the crowded marketplace. "Eight people
died at one place, three at the other."
The
explosions come less than two weeks after India hanged a Kashmiri man
for a militant attack on the country's parliament in 2001 that had
sparked violent clashes.
Witnesses
told Reuters they heard at least two explosions in the Dilsukh Nagar
area of Hyderabad just after dusk but there could have been more.
TV
showed debris and body parts strewn on the street in the area, a
crowded neighborhood of cinema halls, shops, restaurants and a fruit and
vegetable market.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called it a "dastardly attack".
"I appeal to the public to remain calm and maintain peace," he said in a Twitter message.
In
July 2011, three near-simultaneous blasts ripped through India's
financial capital, Mumbai. At least 20 people were killed and over 100
wounded in the blasts set off by Muslim militants, authorities said.
Last year, four small explosions occurred in quick succession in a busy shopping area of the western Indian city of Pune.
(Reporting
by Devidutta Tripathy, Mayank Bhardwaj and Satarupa Bhattacharjya;
Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Jeremy Laurence)
source:http://www.reuters.com
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