India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday said it had arrested a man accused of helping plan last week’s deadly car bombing near Delhi’s Red Fort, which killed at least 10 people and injured more than 30.
In a statement posted on social media, the NIA said the suspect was a resident of India-administered Kashmir, “in whose name the car involved in the attack was registered.”
Investigators also named the alleged suicide bomber of the attack, a resident of the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, who died when the vehicle he was driving stopped at a traffic light and exploded.
Investigators said they also seized another vehicle linked to the alleged suicide bomber, who they said worked as an assistant professor at Al Falah University in Faridabad, in the Indian state of Haryana, Delhi’s National Capital Region. CNN has reached out to the university for comment.
On Wednesday, when authorities said the alleged attackers had links to the Al Falah University, the management at the academic institution said they had “no connection with the said persons apart from them working in their official capacities with the University,” according to CNN affiliate News18.
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