HYDERABAD, Jan 19: Repair work of a pillar of the Hyderabad bypass which was damaged in Tuesday's blast will be undertaken after Eidul Azha.

A team, comprising the managing director of the A. A. Associates, which had designed the bypass, Abdul Aleem, principal engineer, Fazeel Ahmad, and the deputy director of the National Highway Authority, Sham Sundar, inspected the bypass which had been built by Adamjee and Sachal Engineering firms in 1995.

The team will submit its report to the NHA regarding remedial measures, if required. NHA officials and an engineering expert of the consultant firm will maintain a close check on the pillar till the repair work is started.

Mr Ahmad told Dawn by telephone that there was no danger to the bypass but it required investigations which would be carried out after Eid. He maintained that after drilling the damaged pillar, the quality of concrete would be ascertained. He said traffic could ply on the bypass.

Mr Sundar said precautionary measures necessary would be undertaken. Meanwhile, the Jamshoro police have registered an FIR on the complaint of SHO Mohammad Ayub Brohi against unidentified accused under section 7-D of the Anti-Terrorism Act read with section 3, Explosive Act, 1997.

A reliable source in the Jamshoro police on Wednesday said police with the help of two foot-trackers had found footprints of four people at the site of the incident which led investigators to a village near Al-Manzar, Jamshoro.

He said the footprints led to the Sain Dino Mallah Village where signs of a vehicle's wheels which further led the investigators to the Jamshoro-Hyderabad road. The source believed that the blast was carried out by the same group - Sindh National Liberation Front - which had blasted transmission lines in Dadu.

He pointed out that in Dadu the group had left pamphlets but in Tuesday's incident it made calls to newspapers' offices, owning responsibility. However, no arrest has been made so far.