Nine people were killed and dozens were injured late Friday when confiscated explosives detonated at an Indian police station in the troubled region of Kashmir while under analysis.
Nalin Prabhat, Kashmir’s police director-general, said on Saturday that the explosives detonated during examination by police and forensic experts in a “very unfortunate” accident at Nowgam police station. He definitively ruled out any foul play, saying it was an accident and that “any other speculation into the cause of this incident is unnecessary.”
The explosion eviscerated much of the police station and heavily damaged adjacent buildings. Several vehicles around the station were “engulfed in flames and reduced to charred husks, with debris scattered across the site,” a police statement said.
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“The intensity of the blast was such that
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