New Delhi:
The dust yet to settle on the blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, the investigators are already focussing on the next steps — determine the nature of the explosive and cast a wide net to zero in on the attackers.
The massive blast inside a Hyundai I20 car near the Red Fort metro station had left 13 people dead and 24 injured. A huge area bore the impact — with mangled bodies and vehicles strewn all over.
Sources said apart from forensic tests of the explosives, the police will look at CCTV footage from across the area, call records from mobile towers, question eye witnesses, and check all alerts from intelligence agencies.
The blast comes months after Operation Sindoor — India’s retaliation to the terror attack on innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. While the government is yet to clarify if this is a terror attack, the nature of the next steps outlines makes it clear that the authorities are not taking any chances.
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