Hyderabad blasts: Death toll 16, as Indian Mujahideen hand is suspected

mangaloretoday.com/ ITV

Hyderabad, Feb 22: Banned militant outfit Indian Mujahideen’s name has cropped up in the preliminary investigation into the twin blasts here in which the toll climbed to 16 today. The probe suggested that Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was used to carry out the explosions and the modus operandi was similar to blasts triggered by Indian Mujahideen in the past.

 

Delhi Police, along with Hyderabad Police, is expected to interrogate an alleged Indian Mujahideen terrorist, arrested by Special Cell of the Delhi Police from a place in Hyderabad last October.

Maqbool, who is currently in Tihar jail, had said the outfit was planning terror strikes in some places in Hyderabad for which recce had been carried out.

The death toll in the twin blasts, meanwhile, mounted to 16 with two more persons succumbing to injuries.