An 11-year-old-boy died and more than 18 people were injured when a crude bomb exploded at a crowded flower market at Mehrauli, south Delhi, close to the historic Qutub Minar, at 2.12pm on Saturday, police said.
The injured have been admitted to AIIMS; 12 of them are at the Trauma Centre. Five of them suffered serious head injuries. Three or four of the injured could be required to be operated upon, Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta told reporters.
Police said that the blast appeared to be similar in nature to the ones that took place near IIT and Lado Sarai in January, February this year.
Riding a black motorcycle, the two men in black dress and wearing helmets, dropped a black polythene bag containing a tiffin box opposite an electronic goods shop in the flower market in Mehrauli, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) H S Dhaliwal told reporters.
A team of National Security Guard(NSG) reached the spot with sniffer dogs and was examining the blast site. A team of forensic experts have also reached the spot. The national capital has been put on high alert.
According to eyewitnesses, two men on a motorcycle had dropped a tiffin box at the market, known as Phoolwalon ki Sairwala Market, near Aulia Masjid. When the boy picked up the tiffin box, a loud explosion took place, killing him and injuring many people. The explosion shattered the window panes of several adjacent shops in the market located close to the historic Qutab Minar, which was bustling with shoppers. The market has since been evacuated.
The explosion comes exactly two weeks after the serial blasts in Delhi, in which about two dozen people were killed.
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