9 Killed As Seized Explosives Go Off At J&K's Nowgam Police Station | Jammu Kashmir News
t least nine people were killed and 29 others were injured after a huge pile of confiscated explosives stored at a police station in Nowgam near Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar went off on Friday night. Most of those killed were policemen and forensic team officials, who were examining the explosives. Two officials from the Srinagar administration also died in the explosion. The blast occurred while they were handling the explosive material that had been brought from Haryana's Faridabad recently. The injured have been rushed to the Indian Army's 92 Base Hospital and Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). Senior police officials have reached Nowgam, and the area has been cordoned off.
