NEW DELHI: Indian authorities said on Sunday (Nov 16) that a deadly car blast in New Delhi earlier this week was an attack carried out by a "suicide bomber", ann.
Police officers are seen in front of the historic Red Fort in the old quarters of Delhi on Nov 12, 2025.
NEW DELHI: Indian authorities said on Sunday (Nov 16) that a deadly car blast in New Delhi earlier this week was an attack carried out by a "suicide bomber", announcing the arrest of an accomplice.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the country's counterterrorism law enforcement body, said the alleged attacker and the second suspect were both from Indian-administered Kashmir, where police have carried out sweeping raids in recent days.
Announcing "a breakthrough" in the investigation, the NIA said in a statement it had arrested Amir Rashid Ali, "in whose name the car involved in the attack was registered".
He had "conspired with the alleged suicide bomber, Umar Un Nabi, to unleash the terror attack", it added, without specifying any possible motive.
Nabi, a resident of Kashmir, was an assistant professor in general medicine at a university in the northern state of Haryana, according to the counterterrorism agency, which said it had seized a vehicle belonging to him.
Ali had come to Delhi to "facilitate the purchase of the car which was eventually used as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device to trigger the blast", the NIA said.
The explosion on Monday took place near a busy metro station close to the landmark Red Fort in the capital's Old Delhi quarter, where the prime minister delivers the annual Independence Day address.
A hospital official has said the blast killed 12 people.
It was unclear whether the toll included Nabi.
The NIA's statement said the attack "claimed 10 innocent lives and left 32 others injured".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the attack a "conspiracy", and his government vowed to bring the "perpetrators, their collaborators and their sponsors" to justice.
It was the most significant security incident since Apr 22, when 26 mainly Hindu civilians were killed at the tourist site of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, triggering clashes with Pakistan.
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