The DNA test of samples collected from the Red Fort blast site has confirmed that Dr Umar Nabi was driving the car that exploded there early this week, police sources said Thursday. The DNA samples of Umar’s mother were collected on Tuesday and sent here for examination, the sources said, adding that they were analysed along with the remains gathered from the blast site.

Nabi, who hails from Koil village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, was a key member of a “white collar” terror module busted earlier this week. On Monday, hours after police busted the terror module with links to proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, and arrested eight people including three doctors, the high-intensity blast ripped through a slow-moving car near Delhi’s Red Fort area. The death toll on Thursday rose to 13 after another injured person succumbed to his injuries at the LNJP Hospital here, an official said.