10 confirmed dead, but toll may rise: Officials

A day after the blast, officials from Lok Nayak hospital confirmed that at least 10 people had died ~and that the number is likely to go up, as “multiple human remains have been brought to the hospital that may belong to different people.”

- Ridhima Gupta

Hospital officials told HT that DNA testing will have to be carried out to ascertain the identity of the body parts. Of the 10 dead, identities of eight had been established by Tuesday — Amar Kataria (35), Ashok Kumar (34), Mohsin Malik (35), Dinesh Kumar Mishra (35), Lokesh Aggarwal (52), Pankaj Sahni (23), Mohammad Nauman (19) and Mohammad Jumman (35).