A high-intensity blast ripped through a car parked near the Red Fort Monday evening, setting off a major fire that engulfed multiple vehicles and shattered nearby window panes. At the time of filing this story, eight people were killed and 24 were injured in the blast. The death toll might change given the intensity of the blast.

The explosion comes just days after two major terror plots were foiled in Faridabad, near Delhi, and in Hyderabad. The operations led to the arrests of three medical professionals and the seizure of large quantities of explosives, firearms, and chemicals used to make the deadly toxin ricin.

November 9, in Faridabad, Jammu and Kashmir Police, acting on intelligence inputs, arrested two doctors — Adil Ahmed Rather and Mujammil Shakeel — and recovered 350 kilograms

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