A member of the NSG Bomb Disposal Unit, New Delhi, inspects a mobile phone found during the collection of samples from the spot of the recent bomb blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad on Sunday.
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Hyderabad, May 20
The old city is limping back to normalcy even as the police teams today recovered another mobile phone, a Nokia 6030, and a remote device from a water tank inside the Mecca masjid complex, where a blast had killed 11 persons on Friday.
Forensic teams from Delhi and Mumbai, which today visited the masjid in search of clues, found a cell phone and a remote from the water tank of the historic mosque, where worshippers carry out their ablutions before offering prayers.
A Nokia handset, pieces of shrapnel and bits of an improvised explosive device (IED) were recovered from the tank.
The cell phone was found attached to one of the three unexploded bombs, which were found and later defused in the mosque premises
on Friday.
The investigators hope to find more clues about the perpetrators of the crime with the help of a SIM card recovered from the site.
It is believed that the SIM card was bought in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, normalcy is slowly returning to the old city, which witnessed sporadic incidents of violence in the last two days after the blast.
While the situation is under control, the
police is not taking any chances and have remained stationed in sensitive areas around Charminar, where Mecca masjid is located.
Activists of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), the party dominant in
old city, gathered outside the office of the director-general of police
(DGP) at Lakdi-ka-Pul here and demanded action against senior police officers, who were responsible for the police firing on Friday, which resulted in the death of five persons.
Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.
