The Vulnerable VERBOSE

At least seven people have been confirmed dead and around 40 people were injured as blasts rocked New Delhi on Saturday (September 13)i.e today , police said. Five separate blasts hit the teeming city, within minutes of each other, injuring weekend shoppers, a Delhi police spokesman said.

The first blast took place at Ghaffar market in which at least 20 people were injured. The explosion happened at 6:15 PM in an auto rickshaw, which is famous for sale of foreign goods and the mobile phone market as it is known most commonly . The injured were rushed to nearby RML hospital.

Immediately after that, two explosions took place in Connaught Place area in which at least 10 people were injured. Another two explosion rocked M-Block market in south Delhi's posh Greater Kailash-I. The impact of the blasts in Karol Bagh could be gauged by the fact that an auto was thrown up and got caught in the electrical wires. In Ghaffar market, the explosive was believed to have been kept near a Maruti car. Several vehicles were badly damaged due to the impactof the blast.

In Barakhamba Road, one of the bombs was suspected to be placed near Nirmal tower. The second blast in the CP took place near Gopal Das Bhavan and the third one in central park. At least eight people were injured in these two blasts.

In the GK-I blast two people were injured who were rushed to a nearby hospital. Eight to ten shops were damaged in the explosion that took place at around 6:40 pm. The bomb was suspected kept in a dust bin.

Senior police officials including Joint Commissioner of Police Karnail Singh rushed to the spot in the central district and were assessing the situation. The nature of explosion was yet to be ascertained, police said.