Victims were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives
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NATIONAL, November 14, 2025:
At least nine were killed, including civil administration officials, forensic experts and police personnel, in an accidental explosion late Friday night at the Nowgam police station near Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir. 32 others were injured, several critically, in the devastating blast that also damaged private residential buildings around the incident site.
The death toll is expected to rise. Police suggested no sabotage was found in the initiating probe and urged the public at large not to speculate.
Kashmir police said Monday that the explosion occurred when experts were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives linked to a terror module case relating to a huge car blast in Delhi that shook the nation recently.
The Kashmir incident painted gloom on the political spectrums with ruling and opposition parties expressing grief and concern over the explosion. They urged a complete investigation and wished for the early recovery of the injured.
Earlier report:
The police station blast prompted the sound of ambulance and police sirens as the injured were transported to a hospital. Small successive explosions hindered immediate rescue efforts by the bomb disposal squad, raising questions about the full storage of the 360 kg of explosives at the police station, where the related terror module case is being investigated.
The explosives were found during raids in Haryana’s Faridabad.
This police station is involved in the case owing to a conspiracy emerged after threatening posters appeared in Bunpora, Nowgam, in mid-October leading the Srinagar police to register a case on October 19.
Detailed analysis of CCTV footage allowed investigators to identify three initial suspects, all of whom had prior allegations of stone pelting and were caught on camera pasting the threatening posters.
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