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Blast shatters peace

Staff Reporter

The police suspect the hand of some pseudo-naxalite gang

HYDERABAD: The parcel bomb that exploded in a flat on Tuesday evening left the residents of Kalyaninagar in Malakpet stunned.

Nagalaxmi (53), in whose hands the bomb went off, is recuperating, but the blast has shocked her neighbours. The brown envelope kept on a pillar of the complex gate was first noticed by a neighbour Mohan Rao, a retired principal, around noon.

"I picked up the envelope. It was like any other cover," he told The Hindu . On seeing the name Nagalaxmi written on the cover, Mr. Rao called the watchman's wife Leelavati and asked her to hand it over to Nagalaxmi after she returned from office.

She gave the cover to Nagalaxmi's nephew V. Sai Surya Teja, who was in the flat at that time. "I was washing the cellar when I heard some noise. Initially, I mistook it for the bursting of firecrackers," the watchman's wife said. She came upstairs to find out what had happened and was shocked to see Nagalaxmi injured and being taken to hospital. As the news of the explosion spread, locals thronged the apartment. The police suspect the hand of some pseudo-naxalite gang.

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