NEW DELHI: Security forces have demolished the house of Dr Umar Mohammed in Pulwama, Kashmir, who triggered the car blast near Delhi’s iconic Red Fort.
A controlled explosion was used to destroy the house during an overnight operation. The action comes amid a high alert and an intensified crackdown on terror modules linked to the Red Fort blast.
The investigation into the November 10 explosion, which left 12 people dead and injured several, revealed that Umar, a doctor at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, was driving the Hyundai i20 car that exploded near a traffic signal on Netaji Subhash Marg. His presence in the vehicle was confirmed after DNA samples recovered from the blast site matched those collected from his mother.
New CCTV footage has also emerged showing Dr Umar Mohammed driving an i20 car in Connaught Place, the heart of Delhi, nearly five hours before heading toward the Red Fort area, where the blast ultimately occurred.