Overview
- India’s NIA identified Dr. Umar Nabi as the Red Fort suicide attacker through a DNA match to family samples, confirming a vehicle-borne IED attack.
- NIA arrested Jasir Bilal Vani, known as Danish, in Srinagar on allegations he provided technical assistance by modifying drones and working on rockets tied to the plot.
- Jammu & Kashmir’s police chief said the deadly Nowgam police-station explosion was a human error during forensic sampling of seized ammonium nitrate and liquids, with NIA and explosives experts examining lapses.
- Bangladesh’s war-crimes tribunal sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death, and Dhaka police instructed officers to shoot those committing arson or using crude bombs as unrest with bombings, arson and at least two reported deaths spread.
- In Pakistan’s Balochistan, an explosive placed on the Jaffar Express track detonated after the train passed and rockets were fired at it, causing no passenger injuries, with a claim of responsibility reported from the Baloch Republican Guards.