NSG team rushing to Hyderabad: Home secretary

Union Home Secretary R K Singh said the NSG team is leaving by a BSF aircraft. A team of NIA hub stationed in Hyderabad has also rushed to the spot. The previous major attack in Hyderabad was on August 25, 2007 when two blasts took place almost simultaneously.        

The first blast was reported at a park and it was followed by another in a eating joint in Hyderabad. Chief Minister N Kiran Reddy rushed to the blast site.   Meanwhile, A team of forensic experts of NSG, the country's premier counter-terror force, was tonight flown to Hyderabad in the aftermath of the serial blasts that claimed at least ten lives.        

The 'post-blasts' analysis team have been sent to Hyderabad, sources said, adding experts from the Chennai hub of the 'black cat' commandos force have also been rushed to the Andhra Pradesh capital.        

The NSG, which is also the key force for counter-hijack operations, operates the National Bomb Data Centre which has detail information about such acts in the country. The team will collect samples from the spot and analyse the 'trigger mechanism' used in the blasts, the sources added.