Bombing in Google, Microsoft host state kills 20

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INDIA, Hyderabad : Indian police and investigators are pictured at the site of a bomb blast at Dilshuk Nagar in Hyderabad on February 21, 2013. At least 18 people were killed and 52 wounded when bombs ripped through crowded areas of the Indian city of Hyderabad on Thursday in what the prime minister called a "dastardly act". AFP PHOTO / Noah SEELAM
Twin bombings killed at least 20 people on February 21 outside a popular cinema and bus stand in the Indian city of Hyderabad, provoking safety fears among Australia’s touring cricket team. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the perpetrators of the “dastardly act” would be punished. It came with the nation on alert after the recent hanging of a separatist unleashed protests in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. The evening bombings targeted a mainly Hindu district in Hyderabad, a hub of India’s computing industry in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh which hosts local offices of Google and Microsoft among other Western IT companies.

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