Delhi’s alleged car bomb attacker named by investigators

Indian investigators have named the man who they claim was driving the car that blew up last Monday near the landmark Red Fort monument in capital Delhi.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), India’s counter-terrorism agency, named Umar Un Nabi as the “alleged suicide bomber” in the incident that killed 10 and injured 32 others.

A doctor from Indian-administered Kashmir, Umar was working as an assistant professor in the general medicine department at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, a Delhi suburb, the NIA said, adding that it had established the driver’s identity forensically.

The explosion last week came just hours after Kashmir police said they had arrested seven men in recent weeks from different parts of India and seized 2,900kg of explosives from Faridabad – the same suburb of Delhi where Umar lived and worked.

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