“INTENSE EXPLOSION”
People near the scene described hearing a loud explosion.
“I was at the metro station, going down the stairs, when I heard an explosion. I turned around and saw a fire. People started running helter-skelter,” one woman, Suman Mishra, said.
Wali Ur Rehman said he was sitting at his shop. “I fell from the impact of the explosion, it was that intense,” he told news agency ANI, in which Reuters has a minority stake.
About 30 to 40 ambulances were near the site of the blast and the entire area was cordoned off after the fire was put out, a Reuters reporter said.
The United States Embassy in Delhi issued a security alert to its citizens, asking them to avoid crowds and areas surrounding the Red Fort, and to stay alert in places frequented by tourists.
At the city’s LNJP hospital, the emergency ward was chaotic as injured people streamed in and doctors rushed to attend to them.
A woman broke down outside the ward where her husband was being treated. “I can’t bear to see him like that,” she said, as her brother tried to console her.
Source: CNA
