SHOCKED: Sunanda who was injured in the bomb blast in Banjara Hills on Thursday. - Photo: K.Ramesh Babu

HYDERABAD: A woman sustained injuries on her hand when a crude bomb went off, while she was clearing some unused objects left behind by tenants who vacated her house in Indiranagar near Banjara Hills on Thursday.

Already on a high alert following the explosion in Odeon theatre four days ago, the Hyderabad police higher-ups rushed to the scene, but heaved a sigh of relief as complicity of organised groups was ruled out.

Sunanda, 45, wife of a former Allwyn employee Satyaki Goud, was cleaning the space beneath the staircase on the ground floor of her three-storeyed house around 10.45 a.m. She found a box, which had two objects wrapped in cotton threads. She brought the box into the open corridor. "I was a bit curious and tried to take out one. It went off as I touched it," a shocked Sunanda recalled.

Her elder son, who was on their first floor portion, thought some huge object had fallen and came down running to see his mother profusely bleeding. He rushed her to a nearby private hospital.

Another bomb defused

Explosives experts who rushed there defused another crude bomb. Fingerprint experts and the CLUES team officials scoured the place. The house owner, Satyaki Goud, maintained that the portion was given on rent to a painter Anand for the last three years. Anand had shifted to another house in the same locality last month. Some unused articles and junk were left behind underneath the staircase. "They had been taking away the articles one by one. Yesterday also Anand's wife took away some articles," he recalled.

Anand was away at his workplace in Kukatpally but his wife and three children were in the new rented house when the blast occurred. "Obviously scared by the inquiries of neighbours, Anand's family locked their portion and fled by the time we went there," West Zone DCP Amit Garg said.

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