The night after the horrific explosion near Red Fort, family members of the injured waited outside the heavily guarded Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital (LNJP) to meet their loved ones.

Mohammed Hufaiza, 15, who has been sitting on the pavement outside the heavily-barricaded hospital, has not yet been able to see his uncle, 55-year-old Mohammad Farukh, one of the victims of Monday’s blast.

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His father, the younger brother of Farukh, was the first in the family to rush to the hospital at around 8 pm on Monday soon after he came to know that the victims were being taken to the LNJP.

Little Hufaiza, who learnt about the incident on her return from tuition classes, worried about his uncle, owner of a refrigerator spare part shop.

“My father is inside (the hospital). Since his ph

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