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.