9 killed in blast at Nowgam police station in J-K as team examines explosives linked
9 killed in blast at Nowgam police station in J-K as team examines explosives linked to Red Fort module
M.U.H
15/11/202510
At least nine people were killed and 29 others were injured in a massive explosion that rocked a police station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowgam, where explosives recovered from the Red Fort blast-linked terror module were stored, on Friday night. Police sources said that the death toll could rise, and at least six of the injured officials are critical.
According to sources, the explosion occurred when a police team, along with a magistrate and forensic officials, was taking samples from the explosive materials recovered from Haryana’s Faridabad last week.
While the police are yet to issue an official statement on the scale and cause of the explosion, sources said that a team of the State Investigation Agency (SIA) had arrived at the Nowgam police station when the seized material exploded. The SIA had taken over the investigation of the case a day ago.
Police sources said that an inspector of the investigation agency, a revenue official, and some members of a forensic team were among those killed in the massive blast that could be heard 30 km away. Following the explosion, the police station and several vehicles in the vicinity went up in flames.
The Nowgam police station is at the centre of the investigation that led to the unravelling of the Jaish-e-Mohammad’s interstate terror module last week. Three doctors of the close-knit module were arrested from Faridabad in Haryana and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, while a fourth, Umar Nabi, got away. He was allegedly responsible for the Red Fort blast.
The police station was first involved in October, when some posters related to the Jaish-e-Mohammad appeared in the area. The probe into a seemingly local issue at first would lead police hundreds of kilometres away from the Valley, exposing the module.
As part of the raids on the accused doctors, the police had recovered more than 350 kg of ammonium nitrate. This was part of roughly 2,900 kg of suspected explosive material, which also included potash, phosphorus, reagents, inflammable material, electronic circuits, batteries, wires, remote controls, timers and metal sheets. The police have not said how much of this had been moved to Nowgam.
