A few hours after the car explosion near the Red Fort Metro Station, scenes at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital were grim. Ambulances lined the entry gate as drivers and hospital staff rushed in and out.

Zakir, a private ambulance driver, said he crossed the Red Fort gate to retrieve a leg from one side of the road. “The rest of the body was on the other side,” he said. “Body parts were lying everywhere. We picked up body parts and brought them separately.”

Another ambulance driver, Mohd Faizan, said seven ambulances were sent to the site along with the fire services. “I collected hands and legs of the dead separately,” he said. "It was a horrible scene."

Eyewitnesses from the area described what they saw. “I heard a loud sound, saw the flames and came down to see nothing b

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