The forensic team has recovered a human hand from the blast site near Delhi's Red Fort Metro station. The hand is suspected to be of Dr Umar Y. Nabi. Delhi police investigators strongly believe that Umar was the driver of the car that exploded as a suicide bomber.
Meanwhile, the blast near the Red Fort was so strong that many bodies were torn into pieces. Police would carry out DNA tests to identify the victims from the body parts collected from the site.
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Earlier in the morning of November 11, the first photo of Dr Umar, suspected to be the suicide bomber in the Delhi blast case, surfaced. It is speculated that he was driving the white Hyundai i20 that exploded near the Red Fort on Monday evening, killing at least 12 people.
Who was Umar Nabi?
According to sources cited by News 18, Umar Nabi was a physician at Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad. Born on February 24, 1989, he was the son of Ghulam Nabi Bhat and a native of Koil village in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. Sources also said Umar was close to Dr Adil from the Anantnag Medical College and Hospital. He was also part of a radical group of doctors operating on the encrypted social media platform Telegram.
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Umar, according to police sources, worked as a senior resident at Anantnag Government Medical College and Hospital after completing his MD in Medicine from the same college before shifting to Delhi. He was serving as an Assistant Professor at Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad at the time of the blast.
According to the investigators, after a large cache of ammonium nitrate explosives, an AK-47 rifle, cartridges, and magazines were seized from Faridabad, Umar went underground. Police firmly believe that the Faridabad module was involved in the Red Fort blast. Umar's mother and brother have been detained in Pulwama for questioning, officials confirmed.
