Murderous Islamic terrorists have stricken again: Twin bombs kill 42 in Southern India
HYDERABAD, India - A pair of bombings minutes apart tore through a popular family restaurant and an outdoor arena on Saturday night, killing at least 42 people in this southern Indian city plagued by Hindu-Muslim tensions.
The restaurant was destroyed by the bomb placed at the entrance. Blood-covered tin plates and broken glasses littered the road outside.The other blast struck a laser show at an auditorium in Lumbini park, leaving pools of blood and dead bodies between rows of seats punctured by shrapnel. Some seats were hurled 100 feet away.
"We heard the blast and people started running out past us. Many of them had blood streaming off them," said P.K. Verghese, the security manager at the laser show. "It was complete chaos. We had to remove the security barriers so people could get out."
Most of the dead were killed in the Gokul Chat restaurant at Hyderabad's Kothi market, said K. Jana Reddy, the state home minister. By Sunday morning, the death toll had risen to 42 as victims succumbed to injuries. Some 50 people were injured in the two blasts.
Officials have not publicly said who they think is behind the bombings. But local media — citing unnamed officials — reported Sunday that authorities believe Islamic extremists were responsible.
The Press Trust of India news agency reported Sunday that intelligence agencies were investigating a possible link to a Bangladesh-based militant group, Harkat-ul-Jehad-i-Islami.
From another report -- there were at least six separate explosive devices, five of which were detonated:
“To be precise, a total of five explosive devices were used. We now have at least 38 people killed and 60 people injured,” Balwinder Singh, Hyderabad police chief, told reporters.
At least 15 of the injured were in serious condition, officials said, as police chief Singh said a sixth bomb was recovered from a cinema theatre and defused.Federal Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said the explosions in the city, which has a large Muslim population and is considered communally sensitive, were the handiwork of “some terrorist group.”
One terrorist group or the other, which is bent on destroying the unity of the country, is certainly involved in the blasts in Hyderabad,” Jaiswal said.
The Hyderabad city administrator said on Saturday that police “already have some leads” but did not elaborate. The Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy called on “everyone to be calm.”“Bomb blasts are the cruellest acts against humanity. The perpetrators of such an act could have no religion, ideological or national identity. They at best could be described as traitors of humanity,” said Reddy.
Dismembered limbs, clothes and shoes of people watching the laser show lay scattered on the ground and there were pools of blood where victims had fallen.
These are indeed crimes against humanity, but Reddy is wrong in claiming that the perpetrators have "no religion, ideological or national identity." These crimes were committed by specific, depraved individuals. They have a very specific ideology and, as for religion, they are probably Muslim.
Their twisted ideology does not include the fundamental commandment not to kill innocent civilians going about their everyday lives. And, yes, they are traitors against humanity.
The human vermin who deliberately committed this mass killing against innocent civilians should be hunted down by all the nations of the earth.
Update: More on this heinous crime and the heroic rescuers at Gateway Pundit
Someone recently commented that the west will do what it has always done in these uncomfortable situations, wait until the problem is intolerable and then over react. The Thais, who have had a reputation as serious warriors seem to be willing to allow the Religion of Peace to drive them out of southern Thailand. We'll have to wait and see what the Indians do with their criminal fanatic problem.
Posted by: h budd | August 26, 2007 at 03:35 PM