It was Srinivas Reddy's weekly visit to Sai Baba temple in Dilsukhnagar but he never knew that it would be his last.
The BSc (computers) final year student was waiting for a bus to return home when the terror struck. He had come to Hyderabad three years ago and was staying with her sister. Srilatha and her husband found Srinivas Reddy's mutilated body after nearly 12 hours.
Of the 16 dead, five were from Hyderabad, nine from other districts of Andhra Pradesh and one each from Karnataka and Rajasthan.
G. Swapna Reddy's dreams were also cut short. The 30-year-old MBA student from Santoshnagar in Hyderabad had gone to Dilsukhnagar to buy some books along with her friend V. Rajitha.
Swapna was not only studying at Islamia College of Engineering and Technology in Bandlaguda but was also working there as a clerk in the same college to support her family comprising mother, two sisters and a brother.
The story of Rajitha (22) is equally shocking. Though she survived the blast, her leg had to be amputated. Her father, a small-time businessman, said she had dream of taking up a banking job after her education to help him.
Seventeen-year-old Mohammed Aijaz Ahmed was another young student who met tragic end.
Student of a polytechnic college on the city outskirts, he was waiting for bus to return home.
"He left for the college like any other day. We never thought that he would not come back," said Aijaz's father Asghar Ali, a motor mechanic.
Mohammed Rafeeq (22) was also returning home from a shop where he was working. This youth from Babanagar area in the city had discontinued his education after 12th standard and took up a job to help his ailing father and other family members.
Chogaram Kalaji (25) came to Hyderabad from Rajasthan only three months ago and was working at a tea stall.
According to his friends, he migrated to Hyderabad to eke out a livelihood after his father's death. He was getting a monthly salary of Rs.4,000 and was sending a major part of this money to her mother back home.
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