Come what may, life goes on

Hyderabad, Aug 26 (UNI) It was business as usual like any other day at the busy Koti area in the city where the bomb blast killed at least 33 people last night.

Though the police cordoned off the entire area near the women's college, it was yet another normal day for enterprising traders and commoners, particularly women in the Sultan Bazaar area.

Unperturbed by the twin blasts that rocked the city, the women were seen making tough bargain with the hawkers to buy fancy bangles at the congested bazaar, a few meters away from the Gokul Chat Centre.

Premchand Mukundas, whose chat shop was targetted by the terrorists, lamented that the terrorists had targetted his shop to which people of all communities visit to taste the food.

Three of his shop workers were injured in the blast, he added.

Cloth merchant Jugal Kishore Ladda who had migrated from Rajasthan in 1950's and made Hyderabad his second home, said ''The sinister designs of the terrorists to cause disaffection among various communities will not succeed.'' UNI