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Nine persons were killed and 32 injured in an accidental explosion at the Nowgam police station in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday night, the Union Territory's police chief said.
The blast, which took place at 11.20 pm, occurred when the Forensic Science Laboratory team was taking samples of explosive substances and chemicals seized in the recent raids on a terror module in Faridabad, Haryana.
“Any other speculation into the cause of the incident is unnecessary,” Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat told reporters on Saturday.
An inquiry has been launched into the incident, he added.
The explosive substances had been transported from Faridabad and kept “securely in an open area” of the Nowgam police station, Prabhat said.
As per the procedure, samples of the recovered material had to be forwarded for forensic and chemical examination. The forensics team had begun the process on Thursday, the police officer said.
The material was being handled by the forensics team with “utmost caution” because of the “unstable and sensitive nature of the recovery”, Prabhat added.
Among the nine persons who were killed, one was from the State Investigation Agency, three from the forensics team, two crime scene photographers, two revenue officials who were part of the magistrate's team and a tailor associated with the team.
Of the 32 persons injured, 27 were police personnel, two revenue officials and three civilians.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Srinagar. Nowgam is located on the outskirts of Srinagar.
The police station building was severely damaged, the officer said. Adjacent structures were also damaged.
On Monday evening, a car exploded near the Red Fort metro station in Delhi, leaving 13 persons dead. While no details have been officially provided yet about what caused the blast, the police have filed a case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the Explosives Act.
Reports have alleged that Umar Nabi, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, was in the car that exploded. Reports have also claimed that Nabi was a key figure in a terror network spanning Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Hours before the blast, the police said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur. Two doctors from Kashmir – Adeel Ahmad Rather and Muzamil Shakeel – are among those arrested in the alleged case.
The police said at the time that it had recovered 2,900 kg of improvised explosive device-making material in raids in several states.
Shakeel, a doctor, taught at Al-Falah University at Dhauj in the Faridabad district. Two more persons from the university – Umar Mohammed and Shaheen Shahid – have been taken into custody in the case.
On Wednesday, the Union government described the blast as a “terrorist incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces”.
In the backdrop of the blast and the terror module case, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday conducted raids at more than 300 locations in the Kashmir valley allegedly linked to persons affiliated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami.
The raids were conducted in the districts of Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Baramulla and Ganderbal.
More than 200 locations in Kulgam were raided, and over 400 cordon-and-search operations were carried out in the district in the past week.
The police also interrogated about 500 persons allegedly affiliated with banned organisations. Several of those interrogated have been shifted to District Jail Mattan in Anantnag under preventive detention laws.
The police also claimed to have recovered incriminating material, including documents and digital devices, during the raids.
The actions came after intelligence that elements linked to the Jamaat-e-Islami, banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, were trying to revive the organisation under different names, the police said.
The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have not officially linked the terror module and blast cases with the ongoing raids.
Also read: How a Kashmir probe into Jaish posters nearly unmasked Delhi blast plot
Source: Scroll
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