Hyderabad blasts shocker: CCTV cameras were there but not working!

As soon as the investigation gathers steam, the security lapses prior to the twin blasts in Hyderabad on Thursday evening, have gradually started coming to the fore. The blasts claimed 16 lives and injured 117 people.

A IBN7 report said that two CCTVs adjoining the blast sites were not functioning. In all likelihood, the terrorists must have exploited this lapse to get away from the site without any trace of evidence.

Questions are also being raised about the role of the managements of Konark Theatre and Venkatadri Theatre, as the blasts occurred in front of these cinema halls. As per a government notification, all crowded public places must have CCTV cameras for this kind of eventualities.

At present, the police is trying to get a sketch drawn of a suspect going by eyewitness accounts.

“About 1kg of ammonium nitrate was used in the blasts. As ammonium nitrate is not a powerful explosive in itself, they have mixed with other locally available chemicals to make it powerful. There is no possibility of RDX being used. The bombs were placed on bicycles and were hidden inside tiffin-boxes. In 2007, they had used iron balls as splinters. This time it is iron nails,” an investigator at a blast site told IBN7.