Bomb blast kills at least 10 in Mehrauli; New Delhi attacked twice within a month

According to eye witnesses, around 2.15 pm, two unidentified youth on a motorcycle dropped a black plastic bag containing a tiffin box-type container outside an electronics shop near a busy flower market in Mehrauli, close to the historic monument Qutub Minar.

"A young girl immediately picked up the bag and passed it on to a boy of around 10-12 years, who ran after the duo saying, 'Uncle, uncle, wait. You have dropped something.' Seconds later, there was a huge explosion which blew the buy's head off," said Sunil Kumar, who barely managed to escape from being killed.

Kumar said the bomb left a huge crater on the road and there was thick smoke all around. "There was total chaos after the blast. Crowds of people were running here and there, scurrying for safety. There was panic in the air," he said.

"People were lying all around in blood stained clothes, crying and writhing in pain. Sometime later, ambulances came to take away the injured to the AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital," Kumar said, adding, in the pandemonium, the duo on the motorcycle managed to make good their escape.

The latest attack is reminiscent of another that took place barely a month ago when five bomb went off in busy commercial areas of Connaught Place, Karol Bagh's Gaffar Market and M-Block Market of Greater Kailash-I. In that attack, at least 30 people died and over 60 were injured.