HYDERABAD, February 22, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that an all-inclusive investigation into the Thursday night twin bomb blasts at Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad was in progress and the culprits who masterminded the crime will be identified and nabbed soon.
"We will leave no stone unturned to achieve the result immediately," Mr. Shinde told reporters in Hyderabad on Friday.
The Home Minister reached Hyderabad early morning on Friday and drove straight to the blood-stained blast sites amidst tight security. He was accompanied by Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumr Reddy, and top officials from the State Police and National Investigation Agency.
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Botcha Satyanarayana, Home Minister P. Sabitha Reddy, Major Industries Minter J. Geetha Reddy, Director-Geneal of Police V. Dinesh Reddy, and others were also in his entourage.
A visibly upset Union Home Minister, who earlier had served as Andhra Pradesh Governor, later visited CARE Hospital at Nampally where most of the injured persons are being treated. He spoke with some of them, trying to get a first-hand account of the attack.
Speaking to the media later at Lakeview Guesthouse, Mr. Shinde put the toll at 14 and the number of injured at 119. The condition of six of the injured was "critical", he said, indicating that the toll might go up.
He declined to divulge further information about the incident as Parliament was in session. Mr. Shinde said it was too early to blame any organization or outfit for the blasts.
Mr Shinde also categorically said his ministry had not issued any "area-specific alert" to the Andhra Pradesh Government three to four days ago, warning that incidents such as bomb blasts would occur, as was being alleged. What was issued was "a general alert", he affirmed.
He did not agree with the contention that the blasts were a result of intelligence failure.
He also said that the A.P. government would bear all the entire medical expenditure for treatment of the injured besides the ex-gratia already announced on Thursday. The ex-gratia announced was Rs. 6 lakh for the families of each of those killed and Rs. 50,000 to Rs. one lakh to each of the injured in the blasts.
Meanwhile, the state BJP unit has called for a statewide bandh on Friday to protest the twin blasts, party president G. Kishen Reddy said.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
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