Delhi car blast: The blast, panic and reaction - how the events unfolded

NEW DELHI: Eight radical died connected Monday evening successful a blast that occurred adjacent Gate 1 of Red Fort Metro Station. Delhi constabulary and respective different agencies, including the occurrence department, forensic team, National Security Guard (NSG) and National Investigation Agency (NIA), are astatine the spot to analyse the incident.

Soon aft the blast, PM Modi and Union location curate Amit Shah took banal of the situation. Shah, successful a briefing, said that the blast occurred successful a Hyundai i20 car astatine the Subhash Marg postulation awesome adjacent the Red Fort successful Delhi, injuring immoderate pedestrians and damaging immoderate vehicles.

6.55 pm: High-intensity detonation takes place

Talking astir the incident, Delhi occurrence main AK Malik said that the blast occurred astatine astir 6.55 connected Monday evening extracurricular the gross of Chandani Chowk metro station.

Eyewitnesses said that panic gripped the country aft the explosion, and they were shocked astatine seeing the nonaccomplishment of lives and assemblage parts."When we saw someone's manus connected the road, we were perfectly shocked. I can't explicate it successful words..." said a section to ANI."When we came near, we saw assemblage parts dispersed connected the road. No 1 could fig retired what happened. Several cars person been damaged," different eye-witness said.

Delhi transgression subdivision reaches spot wrong 10 minutes

In the briefing, Shah said that Delhi transgression subdivision and Delhi peculiar subdivision reached the spot wrong 10 minutes of the incident.

7.29 pm: Fire doused

Malik added that 7 occurrence tenders reached the spot by 7.29 p.m. to douse the fire. He said that six cars, 2 e-rickshaws and 1 car rickshaw caught occurrence aft the explosion.

Several teams astatine spot aft detonation

A fewer minutes aft the explosion, respective teams from antithetic departments were alerted and reached the spot to analyse the incident.

What's the crushed down blast?

Former DGP AK Jain told PTI that "anything is possible." He added that, "there could beryllium a blast, a violent attack, besides determination whitethorn beryllium a state cylinder blast, a substance vessel would person caught fire, but specified a occurrence is seldom seen.""The forensic squad reached there, and it volition travel retired whether immoderate explosive worldly was used. Arrests of terrorists person been ongoing successful Faridabad, Gujarat, UP. Maybe determination would beryllium their splinter radical that carried retired this. We request to beryllium alert. The full country, quality agencies request to beryllium alert. If a blast occurs, it is similar making a connection against the arrests; soon everything volition get clear," helium added.

What did Shah say?

Shah, successful the briefing, said that the blast occurred astir 7 p.m. successful a Hyundai i20 car astatine the Subhash Marg postulation awesome adjacent the Red Fort successful Delhi. He added that immoderate pedestrians were injured and immoderate vehicles were damaged. "Within 10 minutes of receiving the accusation of the blast, teams from the Delhi Crime Branch and Delhi Special Branch arrived astatine the spot. The NSG and NIA teams, on with the FSL, person present begun a thorough investigation," Shah said.

Shah says taking each possibilities into account

"Orders person been fixed to analyse each adjacent CCTV cameras. I person besides spoken to the Delhi CP and the Special Branch in-charge. The Delhi CP and the Special Branch in-charge are contiguous astatine the spot. We are exploring each possibilities and volition behaviour a thorough investigation, taking each possibilities into account. All options volition beryllium investigated immediately, and we volition contiguous the results to the public. I volition beryllium heading to the spot soon and volition besides sojourn the infirmary immediately," helium added.