Mecca blast: Phone, bomb remains found

FOREIGN CONNECTION: The forensics team thoroughly searched the Masjid premises on Sunday.

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New Delhi: The Hyderabad Mecca mosque blast probe puts the city police in n embarrassing position with questions being raised about the retaliatory fire that killed five people.

A National Security Guard team on Sunday reportedly found a mobile phone inside the mosque as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy hinted the involvement of foreign hand in Friday's horrific bomb blast.

The mobile phone was found when the forensics team thoroughly searched the Masjid premises.

News agency PTI reports that the forensics team also found some remnants of a bomb.

However, while an eight-member NSG team - that visited the scene of the bomb blast - confirmed about the bomb remains being recovered from the site - it denied the information about mobile phone.

Sources said police were now probing whether the cellphone recovered could have been used by the ones who triggerred the attack.

Reddy said there was "overwhelming evidence to show involvement of foreign hand" in the blast.

Evidence collected from the scene and eye-witnesses' account clearly pointed to the involvement of foreign elements in the dastardly act, he said after taking part in an educational programme in Komaraveedu village.

Over 200 Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen activists staged a sit-in outside the office of the Director General of Police here demanding a CBI probe into the police firing in the aftermath of the bomb blast.

A powerful bomb ripped through the mosque on Friday killing 11 and wounding over 50. Five more died when police fired at protesters who attacked shops and petrol pumps in communally-sensitive Charminar area.

(With inputs from PTI)