Srinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Srinagar today evening after 9 people were killed and 31 other injured in a high-intensity blast inside Nowgam police station late last evening, sources said on Saturday.

Sources said that Amit Shah will arrive in Srinagar in the evening. “He will briefed about the blast incident inside the police station in Srinagar’s Nowgam,” they said.

A State Investigating Agency (SIA) officer, a Naib Tehsildar were among 9 people dead and 31 others injured in the Nowgam blast.

The blast, according to officials, took place after FSL team along with revenue officials were handling a stockpile of explosives, confiscated from Haryana’s Faridabad last week after Jammu and Kashmir police busted an alleged doctors’ terror module.

The explosive wa

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