Srinagar: Nine people were killed and 29 others were injured in an explosive blast at a police station in Nowgam in Srinagar on Friday. This blast occurred when taking samples from the after a huge pile of confiscated explosives stored in police station.

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 Faridabad in Haryana 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.

It was the Nowgam police station that cracked the case of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed’s posters in various locations of the area. These posters exposed the terror module in which radicalized highly-qualified professionals were involved. The discovery led to the recovery of massive explosive material and the arrest of several terror doctors.