Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: November 24, 2002
Security was stepped up in the city
on Sunday with deployment of additional forces following the killings of
two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, key suspects in the Sai Baba temple blast,
in police encounters.
Violence had erupted during the
burrial of one of the militants Mohammad Azam, a resident of the old city
area here, yesterday with a huge crowd gathered for the funeral pelting
stones at police vehicles and raising slogans against them, police said.
Police had fired in the air to quell
the 'angry crowd', they added.
The body of the second militant
Imran, is being brought here from Karimnagar, where he was killed in encounter
last night, for burrial later on Sunday evening.
Two companies of rapid action force,
three platoons of state police and five platoons of city armed reserved
police have been deployed in the 'sensitive areas', police said.
"This arrangement has been made
in addition to the routine bandobust to meet any eventuality", they said.
