Explosion near Red Fort was car-borne suicide attack, says NIA
A week after a car explosion killed 13 people near the Red Fort in Delhi, the National Investigation Agency said on Sunday (November 16, 2025) that the driver of the car, Umar ul Nabi — a doctor by profession — was a “suicide bomber”. The agency has arrested a Kashmiri resident for allegedly conspiring with with the doctor to carry out the terror attack .The NIA’s statement confirms that this was the first car-borne suicide attack in the national capital and only the second since the 2019 Pulwama terror attack, when a suicide bomber rammed his car carrying explosives into a bus, killing 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in south Kashmir.
Red Fort blast: agencies to recreate ‘bomber’s’ route, probing hawala trail
As part of the expanding probe into the Red Fort car blast that claimed 13 lives on November 10, security agencies are preparing to recreate the route taken by Umar ul Nabi, a doctor who has been identified as the one who drove the explosive-laden car, an official said on Sunday.
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