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The Government of India has confirmed that a Deadly car blast near Red Fort area of Delhi Monday was a “terrorist incident” carried out by “anti-national forces”.
Federal Cabinet of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modipassed a resolution late Wednesday night, ultimately confirming speculation that it was a terrorist attack, two days later An explosion occurred on one of the busiest roads Outside a 17th century Mughal fort.
At least 8 people have been confirmed dead and many have been injured after an explosion in a slow moving car at a traffic signal. Due to its impact, bodies of street vendors and pedestrians jumped into the air and nearby vehicles caught fire.
The attack near the Red Fort, a major tourist attraction from where the Prime Minister delivers his Independence Day address to the nation on August 15 every year, is the deadliest terrorist attack in the capital in a decade. This was the second such attack India Since April, terrorists have fired on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir, killing 26.
“The country has witnessed a heinous terror incident carried out by anti-national forces through a car blast near the Red Fort on the evening of 10 November 2025. The blast resulted in the death of several people and injuries to several others,” it said in a statement.
“Cabinet directs that the incident be investigated with utmost promptness and professionalism so that the perpetrators, their associates and their sponsors are identified and brought to justice without any delay.”
It also said the Cabinet “unequivocally condemns this cowardly and dastardly act which has led to the loss of innocent lives.”
This came as Mr Modi on Wednesday visited LNJP Hospital, where blast survivors were undergoing treatment after returning from a trip to Bhutan.
“Those behind the conspiracy will be brought to justice!” Mr Modi said while sharing photos of him meeting the survivors in the hospital on Instagram.
Authorities in the national capital had by now announced that they were investigating the case under stringent terror laws, a move that gives investigating officers wide powers to arrest or detain people. But he has not publicly detailed his evidence.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad of the National Investigation Agency, India, took over the investigation of the blast.
No direct arrests have been made so far in Delhi, but at least five people have been detained for questioning A series of overnight raids in Kashmir’s southern Pulwama district, Police officials said this on Wednesday.
Monday’s blast came hours after police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said they had destroyed a suspected terrorist cell operating on the outskirts of the disputed territory. New Delhi,
Police have not yet linked the blast to any suspected terror cell, but Indian media have linked the case to the arrest of seven people, including two doctors, following the seizure of weapons and a large quantity of bomb-making material in a town in Haryana state, near New Delhi.
Police said they recovered 2,900 kilograms of explosive material as well as chemicals and guns in the raid on Monday morning.
Investigation sources told Indian news outlets that they were probing whether the driver of the car that exploded belonged to the same group and whether the blast was a reaction to the arrests and raids.
India termed it a terrorist attack… Fears rise of renewed tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan After the Pahalgam blast in May, Mr Modi had announced that “any future act of terrorism will be treated as an act of war” by his government.
India regularly accuses Pakistan of supporting Islamic militants in Kashmir, where a bloody insurgency against Delhi’s rule is in the middle of its third decade. Islamabad has denied the allegation.
pahalgam attack Which took the lives of 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, which pushed the two countries to the brink of a third war after another. Drone and missile attacks on the border for four daysA subsequent US-led ceasefire halted hostilities, although India denied a US role in peace efforts,