Belying beliefs that South India is not troubled by terrorists, two bomb blasts went off in Hyderabad on a calm Saturday evening in August. At least 42 persons were killed. 50 were injured in two powerful, almost simultaneous blasts at a crowded park and a popular eating place.
Thirty-two people died after a bomb ripped through Gokul Chat Shop at Kothi locality at around 7.50 pm. Over 20 persons were wounded in the blast.
In another blast, just five minutes earlier, at the Lumbini Park, an amusement arena 5 km away, 10 people died in a blast while watching a laser show. The park is situated near the state secretariat in the heart of the city.
Earlier, on May 18, at least 14 were killed, and over 50 injured, in a blast in the historic Mecca Masjid and in the subsequent police firings.
This year the country witnessed a series of blasts. At least 68
people, including some Pakistani nationals, were killed in explosions believed to
have been set off by improvised explosive devices in two coaches of the Delhi-Attari special train for Lahore at Deewana near Panipat, about 100 km from Delhi.
Terror hit Ludhiana on October 15 when six people were killed and 30 injured in an explosion in a multiplex cinema located in a busy shopping area in Punjab.
Image: Relatives mourn the victims in Hyderabad.
Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
Also read: The dossier of a terror mastermind
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