A car explosion in New Delhi's Red Fort area, popular with tourists to the Indian capital city, has killed several people and injured many more, local media reported. The cause of the explosion is not immediately clear, but it occurred in a parked car outside Gate 1 of the Red Fort metro station.

Indian police are investigating if there is a link between this week's car blast in Delhi and the earlier arrest of a group of seven men from the restive Kashmir region with arms and bomb-making mater...