The death toll in the Hyderabad twin bomb blasts has gone up to 14. Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde who visited the blasts site at Dilsukhnagar this morning told reporters that 119 others were injured .Six of the injured are critical. Shinde said that investigation has begun and the state government has appointed a probe team.

Replying to a query about inputs suggesting that a blast might take place in Hyderabad, he said there was no specific alert and only a general alert was issued to the states.

To another query about the involvement of group in the blast, he said such things can't be said at the moment.

The Minister, who was accompanied by Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh , inspected the fast food centre where the bicycle bomb killed at least eight persons on the spot.

He then went to the bus shelter about 150 meters away where the second blast killed another six people and left many injured.

Shinde also spoke with officials of the National Investigating Agency and enquired about clues gathered from the scene.

The Union Minister later visited some hospitals where injured persons were undergoing treatment.

Two powerful near simultaneous blasts had ripped through a crowded area close to a cluster of bus stands in Dilsukhnagar area yesterday.

The blasts triggered by Improvised Explosive Devices or IED tied to two bicycles took place at two sites 100 metres apart outside a roadside eatery near Konark and Venkatadri theatres in the area located on the Hyderabad-Vijaywada national highway in Cyberabad police limits.

Director General Police Dinesh Reddy had said it was definitely the handiwork of a terrorist network and IEDs were used in the attack.