மோசமான செல்போன் இரண்டாவது ஹைதராபாத் வெடிப்பை தவிர்த்தது.

மெக்கா மசூதியில் இரண்டாவது குண்டுவெடிப்புகளை மோசமான செல்போன் தடுத்திருக்கிறது. இரண்டாவது செல்போனையும் வெடிகுண்டுகளையும் போலீஸார் கைப்பற்றியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

செல்போன் கல்கத்தாவில் வாங்கப்பட்டது என்றும் கூறுகிறார்கள்.

இது முக்கியமான தடயம் என்று கூறுகிறார்கள்

Poor mobile signal prevented 2nd blast
21 May, 2007 l 0015 hrs ISTlP Ramamoorthy/TIMES NEWS NETWORK

HYDERABAD: Had the Hutch network kept up its claim - 'wherever you go, our network follows' - on Friday, yet another bomb may have gone off on Friday. Weak signals in the Charminar-Mecca Masjid area ensured that one live bomb failed to detonate as the calls were not completed.

The modus operandi was that an operator (Mohd Abdul Sahed alias Bilal of the HuJI) in Bangladesh would call the number and the completion of the call would activate the explosive device. While the first bomb went off as planned, the other call — that would have exploded the second bomb — could not be completed because of poor network connection. Nine people died in the bomb blast and five others in the police firing that followed.

Investigators believe that the first bomb was to be triggered shortly after 1 pm right during namaz. The second bomb was to be set off soon after. The first bomb went off only at 1.22 pm, presumably because it took Bilal some time to connect. That he was trying to connect from a distance of 1,500 km did not help.

Investigators found that the handset used to detonate the bomb was a black Nokia 6300. It had the unique identification number 3343901248899. The cell phone connection was through a pre-paid card bought somewhere in eastern India, possibly Kolkata or Malda.

Meanwhile, a National Security Guard (NSG) team that came from Delhi on Sunday found another cell phone of the same Nokia make in the pool inside the Mecca Masjid complex.