The 2005 Begumpet suicide bombing resulted in the deaths of two persons at the

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Commissioner's Task Force office at

Begumpet Begumpet ("Begum's Place") is a part of Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Begumpet is named after the daughter of the sixth Nizam (Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI), Basheer Unnisa Begum, who received it as part of her wedding dowry when ...

. On 12 October 2005, at around 7.30 PM

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, a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the Task Force office killing himself and 45-year-old

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A. Satyanarayana. The suicide bomber was reported to be a

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i national Dalin alias Mohtasim Billal, member of

Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami ( ar, حركة الجهاد الإسلامي, ''Ḥarkat al-Jihād al-Islāmiyah'', meaning "Islamic Jihad Movement", HuJI) is a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist organisation affiliated with Al-Qaeda and Talib ...

(HuJI), a banned Islamic terror group. Ghulam Yazdani and Shahed Bilal key accused in the bombing died on 8 March 2006 and 30 August 2007 respectively. The bombing was reported to be carried out to avenge the killing of Mujahid Salim, son of SIMI patron Maulana Abdul Aleem Islahi, by

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in 2004.

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