Aijaz Rahi/Associated Press An official of India’s National Investigation Agency collecting evidence from one of the two bomb blast sites in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, on Friday morning.The death toll from Thursday’s explosions in Hyderabad has risen to 15, officials said Friday morning, and the number of injured increased to 119.
As intelligence experts and government officials gathered at the site Friday morning, more information was released that appears to indicate that the blasts were long-planned, raising questions about whether they could have been prevented.
The two blasts went off about 150 meters from each other near a crowded bus stand in the neighborhood of Dilsukh Nagar on Thursday evening.
Two days before the blasts, national intelligence sources warned that there may be terrorist activity in Hyderabad, as well as other cities in India including Bangalore and Coimbatore, the Home Ministry reported Friday.
A Oct. 26, 2012 Delhi Police press release about the arrest of four people in connection with explosions in Pune in August, 2012 mentions the neighborhood where they occurred as a potential target, citing their involvement with an alleged Muslim militant held in an earlier attack.
“About a month before Ramzan in 2012, Maqbool helped Imran in doing a recce of Dilkhush Nagar, Begum Bazar an! d Abids in Hyderabad on a motorcycle,†the release said. The August 2012 Pune attacks did not kill anyone.
Wires on CCTV cameras near Thursday’s blasts were cut four days before the attack, NDTV reported, citing local police officials, and they had not been repaired even though traffic police knew they were not working.
A senior inspector identified only as Nagasayi told reporters that iron nails were found at both bombing sites. He also said that there were chances that ammonium nitrate was mixed with other explosives.
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