Nine killed, 32 injured in ‘accidental blast’ at J&K police station while handling seized explosives from Faridabad
Nine persons were killed and 32 others were injured in a major explosion caused “accidentally” inside Srinagar’s Nowgam Police Station on Friday (November 14, 2025) night, J&K Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat said on Saturday (November 15). The blast occurred while authorities were extracting samples, before forwarding to the forensic team, from a large cache of explosives confiscated from Haryana’s Faridabad in connection with an inter-State terror module case. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the government will compensate for damages caused to nearby structures by the accidental blast at Nowgam police station.
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