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Police sound high alert

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— PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

TIGHT VIGIL: Personnel of the City Police Commissioner’s Task Force stepped up vehicle checking in Hyderabad on Saturday evening.

HYDERABAD: Police in the State capital sounded a high alert as serial blasts rocked the country’s capital on Saturday, a day before the traditional Ganesh idol final procession here, to be witnessed by lakhs of people.

After convening emergency tele-conferences, the chiefs of Hyderabad and Cyberabad police instructed all their subordinates to move onto the roads and continuously patrol the procession routes and places of public congregation.

Appealing to people not to panic over the explosions, police came out with a security advisory. “We don’t want to discourage people from witnessing and participating in the procession but suggest that everyone should be security conscious,” East Zone DCP T. Prabhakar Rao said. Keep watch on the movements of people around you and alert nearby policemen if any suspicious person is found carrying bags or boxes. Don’t hesitate to intimate police if vehicles -- two or four-wheelers -- are abandoned at crowded places for long and any unclaimed objects like bags, briefcases and boxes are found.

Note down telephone numbers of your local police and those of the main control rooms concerned before stepping out.

With watch towers and rooftop security posts all along the main and subsidiary procession routes, police said adequate security systems were in place. Over 30,000 policemen had been deployed across the city to meet any eventuality.

City Police Commissioner B. Prasada Rao appealed to people to be cautious about even dustbins as the terrorists planted explosives in them in New Delhi. Instead of assembling in large numbers at one place, it would be better if people move in smaller groups, he said.

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