At least nine people were killed and 27 injured when a large pile of confiscated explosives at Nowgam police station in India-occupied Kashmir’s Srinagar detonated late last night, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Saturday.
Most of those killed were policemen and forensic team officials who were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives seized earlier this week in Haryana state, the report said.
According to the PTI, those killed in the incident included three people from the Forensic Science Laboratory, two from the revenue department, two police photographers, a member of the State Investigation Agency and a tailor.