An explosion near Gate no 1 of the Red Fort metro station in Delhi has led to at least eight deaths and multiple injuries.
The Delhi Fire Department said that it had received a call regarding an explosion in a car near the Red Fort Metro Station in the national capital, after which three to four vehicles there caught fire.
Five fire tenders have been rushed to the spot.
15 people injured in the blast were taken to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) hospital, but eight of them died on the way, as per a media report.
A high alert has been sounded in Delhi in the wake of this incident.
A local shopkeeper told the media, “I fell three times due to the explosion. It felt as if we were all going to die.”
An injured eyewitness, who received a wound on his head, said that the explosion appeared to have originated from a car, which was probably a Swift.
“There was a Swift car in front of my auto. There was something in that car that suddenly blasted,” he told the publication.
Another witness told the media “I was at the gurdwara when I heard a strong sound. We couldn’t make out what it was, it was that loud.”
“A number of vehicles nearby were completely damaged,” he added.
This incident comes in the wake of eight terrorist being arrested from Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. This arrested individual was part of a “white collar terror module”, as per the Jammu and Kashmir police.
One of them was caught with 360 kg of ammonium nitrate.