PM Modi prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured and said he reviewed the situation by speaking to Home Minister Amit Shah, who visited the LNJP Hospital to meet the victims.

Amit Shah earlier spoke to the Delhi Commissioner of Police and the Special Branch in-charge, while the NSG and NIA teams are leading a multi-agency probe into the blast.

The force of the explosion that killed 13 people and injured 24this evening near Delhi’s historic Red Fortwas so powerful that the door of a car was flung nearly 100 metres from the blast site, officials said.