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.
Soon after the November 10 blast, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sources said that the initial investigation seems to suggest that the blast was premature and
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