Five students were among the 14 dead in the Hyderabad twin blasts yesterday.

Among the five, Vijay Kumar had come to the blast site to purchase some books as he was preparing for sub-inspector examination in Prohibition and Excise Department.

Among the other students killed were Rajasekhar, who was pursuing MBA, Harish, an engineering student from Kottapet locality, and Swapna, another MBA student.

Another deceased student — Azaz Ahmed — of Kottagudem in Khammam too had come to purchase books.

Of the 14, bodies of 13 have been identified. Of the 119 injured, most of them are in the age group of 19 to 22, police said.

Two powerful blasts had ripped through a crowded area close to a cluster of bus stands in Dilsukhnagar area yesterday.

The twin blasts, triggered by Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) tied to two bicycles, took place at two sites 100 metres apart outside a roadside eatery near Konark and Venkatadiri theatres, located on the Hyderabad-Vijaywada national highway in Cyberabad police limits.

Dilsukhnagar is one of the densely populated and busy corridors of the city as a bus stop here connects to almost all the parts of Hyderabad. A large fleet of buses make a halt here to pick-up and drop commuters.

The area also has a number of educational institutions and one of the business markets in the city.

Suspected terrorists targeted the area for the second time in ten years. Earlier, the area had witnessed an explosion in 2002 near Saibaba temple in which two persons were killed.

Meanwhile, the state BJP unit has called for a state-wide bandh today to protest the twin blasts, party president G. Kishen Reddy said.

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