{"id":75132,"date":"2025-11-11T23:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/witnesses-describe-car-explosion-delhi"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:28:20","slug":"people-were-screaming-for-help-delhi-car-blast-witnesses-describe-scenes-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75132","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People were screaming for help\u2019: Delhi car blast witnesses describe scenes of horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explosion near the Red Fort landmark was so loud and intense it was felt several kilometres away<\/p>\n<p>Few monuments symbolise Delhi\u2019s past splendour than its grand, 17th-century Red Fort, once the imperial domain of Mughal emperors. The fortress now stands as a museum frozen in time but the surrounding area remains the thriving heart of the Indian capital, where dried fruit and vegetable vendors jostle for space alongside stalls selling clothes, suitcases and shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Across the street are the narrow lanes of the famed Chandi Chowk bazaar. By nightfall, the roads are chock-full of rickshaws and loudly honking cars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/witnesses-describe-car-explosion-delhi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosion near the Red Fort landmark was so loud and intense it was felt several kilometres awayFew monuments symbolise Delhi\u2019s past splendour than its grand, 17th-century Red Fort, once the imperial domain of Mughal emperors. The fortress now stands a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75133,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75132\/revisions\/75133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}