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Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and senior BJP leader L K Advani are visiting Hyderabad today to take stock of the situation arising out of Saturdays twin blasts.
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Aug 26 : Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and senior BJP leader L K Advani are visiting Hyderabad today to take stock of the situation arising out of Saturday's twin blasts.
Patil will be accompanied by a high-level delegation of his ministry, including Special Secretary (Internal Security) M Kumawat.
The Centre is also scheduled to dispatch a forensic experts team to examine the blast sites.
Advani has already left for the Andhra Pradesh capital to review the situation.
Meanwhile, the State Cabinet and all political parties of the state are scheduled to meet later in the day in the wake of the blasts, which claimed 42 lives and injured about 100 others.
The first explosion took place at Lumbini Park at around 7.40 p.m., which was a high-intensity one. Around eight hundred people were present to witness a laser and a fountain show when the blast took place at the park, which is situated very close to the State Secretariat.
The next went off about half an hour later at a popular eatery joint, Gokul Chat Bhandar at Sultan Bazar, which remains overcrowded on weekend.
Police also recovered two unexploded bombs from a cinema hall in the busy Dilsukhnagar area and another from Narayanaguda. A bomb threat was received by an IMAX hall near Lumbini Park.
Saturday's explosions came three months after 16 people were killed in a bombing at the Mecca Masjid in the city. The attacks were planned and executed by Bangladesh-based terror group Harkat-ul Jihad Islami (Huji).
State Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy stated that the intensity of the blasts indicate it as a terror attack.
According to Intelligence agency sources, the attacks could be the handiwork of Shahid Ilyas Bilal, who was also linked to the Mecca Masjid attacks. Bilal is a high-ranking Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative who has lately been working with Huji.
ANI
