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Deadly bombs strike shopping area in India's Hyderabad

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Indian officials collect evidence at one of the two bomb blast sites in Hyderabad, India, early Feb. 22, after a pair of bombs exploded the previous evening.
Indian officials collect evidence at one of the two bomb blast sites in Hyderabad, India, early Feb. 22, after a pair of bombs exploded the previous evening.Aijaz Rahi / AP
Sujatha is overcome after seeing her husband Venkateshwarulu's body at a mortuary in Hyderabad, India, on Feb. 21. Her husband was killed in a pair of blasts in a crowded shopping area.
Sujatha is overcome after seeing her husband Venkateshwarulu's body at a mortuary in Hyderabad, India, on Feb. 21. Her husband was killed in a pair of blasts in a crowded shopping area.Mahesh Kumar A / AP

The AP reports: A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a crowded shopping area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 50 more in the worst bombing in the country in more than a year, officials said.

The blasts occurred about two minutes apart outside a movie theater and a bus station, police said. Storefronts were shattered and television footage showed the wounded being rushed to hospitals. Read full story

An injured man is carried to hospital from the site of a bomb blast in Hyderabad.
An injured man is carried to hospital from the site of a bomb blast in Hyderabad.EPA
A member of the bomb squad with a sniffer dog arrives at the spot after a bomb blast in Hyderabad on Feb. 21.
A member of the bomb squad with a sniffer dog arrives at the spot after a bomb blast in Hyderabad on Feb. 21.Mahesh Kumar A / AP

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