A home-guard was killed and one constable sustained bullet injuries when two suspected members of a terror outfit opened fire at them.
A home-guard was killed and one constable sustained bullet injuries when two suspected members of a terror outfit opened fire at them, apparently to avenge the 2007 police firing following the Mecca Masjid blast.
Two terror suspects, riding on a bike, opened fire on home-guard K Bala Swamy (22) and constable Rajendra Prasad, who were on picket duty at Falaknuma locality in Old City.
Swamy, who was hit on the head, died on way to hospital, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao said, adding that Prasad was admitted to a hospital with bullet injuries.
"We are suspecting that the incident is the handiwork of a terror module. We found a pamphlet in Urdu from the spot which said that the attack was to avenge the police firing immediately after Mecca Masjid blast," Rao said.
Significantly, today is the second anniversary of bomb blast in the historic Mecca Masjid near Charminar here on May 18, 2007 that killed more than ten people.
Five others died when police opened fire to control the rampaging mobs immediately after the blasts.
The Commissioner said the pamphlet carried the name of Tehreek Tahfooz Sharia-e-Islam (movement for protection of Islam) as responsible for today's attack.
A high alert has been sounded across the city in the wake of the attack and security has been stepped up, the Police Commissioner said.
"We have sounded a high alert. We have intensified frisking, and thorough checking of vehicles is being done," Prasada Rao said.
Additional forces have been deployed in sensitive areas and manhunt has been launched to nab perpetrators of the attack, the Commissioner said.
The pamphlet recovered by police that names Tehreek Tahfooz Sharia-e-Islam (TTSI), is a religious Muslim group, that was founded by Moulana Mohammed Naseeruddin, who is an accused in killing of former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya, and is presently lodged in a jail in Gujarat.
The assailants, who were allegedly associated with terror suspect Vikar Ahmed, opened seven rounds on the cops today, police sources said.
In a similar firing incident, Vikar Ahmed (a former SIMI activist and an accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case) and his associate opened fire on a police team at Santoshnagar Cross Roads here on December 3 last year, injuring two police constables, and are absconding since the incident.
Hyderabad has a bloody history of terror attacks with bomb explosions carried out at various temples in 2001, an attack again at a temple in 2003, a suicide bomb attack at a police task force office subsequently, the Mecca Masjid blast in 2007, twin blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat Bhandar in the same year.
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