Death toll in Delhi blast rises to three

New Delhi, Sept 28 (PTI) The death toll in the Mehrauli blast in south Delhi Sunday rose to three with one more person succumbing to his injuries at a hospital here.

The unidentified man, who was injured in yesterday's
blast at Mehrauli's flower market and admitted to the All
India Institute of Medical Sciences,died Sunday, hospital
superintendent John Bera said.

Police said at least 22 people were injured in the
explosion, which came exactly two weeks after the national
capital was rocked by five near-simultaneous blasts in which
24 people were killed and more than 100 injured.

Riding a black motorcycle, two men in black dress and
wearing helmets, dropped a black polythene bag containing a
tiffin box opposite an electronic goods shop in the flower
market at about 2.15 pm Saturday.

A 13-year-old boy Santosh Kumar died when he picked it
up to give it back to the bikers.

One of the injured -- a 60-year-old unidentified man
whose cervical was badly fractured -- succumbed at the
A.I.I.M.S. Saturday night.

The explosive shattered the window panes of several
adjacent shops in the market, located close to the historic
Qutab Minar, which was bustling with shoppers.

A total of 21 people, injured in the blasts, were
admitted at the A.I.I.MS. and the condition of most of them
are critical, M. C. Mishra, H.O.D., A.I.I.M.S. Trauma Centre
(Surgery) said in a release Sunday.

One person was discharged from the hospital, he
said.

Fourteen injured were admitted to the trauma centre of
the hospital, he said, adding that the condition of six is
critical and two extremely critical. PTI SWT