NEW DELHI: An Israeli woman diplomat was injured in a daylight bomb attack on her vehicle, just near the Israeli embassy located in the high security area of Aurangzeb Road late on Monday afternoon. A similar unsuccessful attack took place on Monday on another Israeli diplomat in another part of world — in Georgian capital Tbilisi.
According to the Israeli foreign ministry, it is probing both the incidents to ascertain if the similar attacks on their diplomats, in two different cities in the world, are connected or just a coincidence. Israel’s newspapers are also speculating that the two attacks could be linked and it is a case of ‘revenge’ hit by the Hezbollah terror group whose leader Imad Mughniyah’s fourth death anniversary fell on Sunday. It is suspected that Israeli spy agency Mossad was behind Imad’s killing.
Confirming the Delhi incident, Israeli Embassy spokesperson David Golfarb said: “There was an explosion in a diplomat’s car.
One person has been injured and taken to hospital. We are in constant touch with local authorities.” For the first time in India, a highly sophisticated, magnetic bomb was used to target the Israeli’s diplomat car by two unidentified bikers.
Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta confirmed that they are investigating the possibility of attack on the diplomat’s car with the use of a ‘magnetic’ bomb. “It may have been some kind of a magnetic device which was used to trigger the blast. There was a mild explosion and the car caught fire,” he said while briefing the media about the incident.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for the twin terror attacks on the country’s diplomatic interests in New Delhi and Tbilisi.
Hours after the blast, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna spoke to his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, assuring him that the law of the land will take its course. Asserting that India very strongly condemns such incidents, Krishna said it will be fully investigated and the culprits brought to justice.