The Centre on Saturday said that the blast that occurred inside the Nowgam police station in Jammu and Kashmir late on Friday night was triggered during a forensic sampling procedure. At least nine people were killed in the incident, with the toll likely to rise.

“For the last two days, a forensic sampling procedure was going on as they had to submit all the samples late Friday night,” a source said about the explosion that rocked the police station, where explosives recovered from the Red Fort blast-linked terror module were stored in an open area.

“Yesterday, at around 11.20 pm, an unfortunate accidental explosion took place inside the Nowgam police station. During the investigation of a terror module, a huge cache of explosive substances and chemicals had been recovered and kept secur

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