{"id":255204,"date":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255204\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","slug":"delhi-explosion-eight-killed-after-explosion-near-red-fort-landmark-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255204\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi explosion: Eight killed after explosion near Red Fort landmark, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A stark reminder of a violent decadepublished at 15:43 GMT<\/p>\n

15:43 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Soutik Biswas
India Correspondent<\/p>\n

An explosion in a car near Delhi\u2019s landmark Red Fort, which has
\nreportedly killed at least eight people, has put the capital and neighbouring
\nstates on high alert.<\/p>\n

The cause is still being investigated, but the scale and
\nlocation of the blast have revived fears of the urban bombings that scarred
\nIndia in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

The last major attacks in Delhi took place in September
\n2008, when a series of bombs tore through busy markets in two separate
\nincidents, killing around 20 people. Those and similar blasts in Jaipur,
\nAhmedabad and Bangalore that year were blamed on Islamist militant groups and a
\nshadowy students’ group.<\/p>\n

It was a grim year. Reporting for the BBC that September, I
\nwrote: “Such days are becoming increasingly common in the lives of
\nIndians. Since October 2005, more than 400 people have been killed in bomb
\nattacks across Indian cities.”<\/p>\n

Since the 2008 Mumbai attacks later that year, which left
\n166 dead, India has largely been spared mass-casualty bombings in its cities.<\/p>\n

This evening’s blast will trigger unease and a sweeping
\nsecurity response across the capital.<\/p>\n

Whether accidental or deliberate, the explosion is a stark
\nreminder of a more violent decade when bombings were a recurring urban fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stark reminder of a violent decadepublished at 15:43 GMT 15:43 GMT Soutik BiswasIndia Correspondent An explosion in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-255204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}