Nine persons, including a revenue officer and an inspector-rank police official, were killed and 32 others injured on Friday night in a massive explosion inside Srinagar’s Nowgam police station where explosives recovered from the Delhi blast-linked “white collar” terror module were stored.

The J&K Police and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Saturday termed the explosion as an “accidental detonation”, urging the public and the media to avoid speculation until investigators determined the exact cause.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who heads the UT’s Home Department, has ordered an investigation into the incident. The blast occurred around 11.22 pm when a team of the J&K Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) and forensic experts arrived at the police station for extracting sampl

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