J&K police station blast: Top cop rules out 'terror angle'; calls incident an 'accident'

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashimir DGP Nalin Prabhat connected Saturday ruled retired panic space successful Nowgam constabulary stataion blast lawsuit that killed 9 people.The apical further said said 9 radical person mislaid their lives successful the blast including 3 State Investigation Agecy personnel, 2 transgression photographers, 2 gross officials and 1 tailor.He called it an accidental blast and said immoderate different speculation astir the origin of the incidental is unnecessary.The DGP said that during the probe of FIR No. 162/2025 of PS Nowgam, a immense cache of explosive substances, chemicals, and reagents was besides recovered from Faridabad connected 9 and 10 November 2025. The betterment was transported and kept securely successful the unfastened country of the constabulary station.

"As portion of the prescribed procedure, the samples of the betterment had to beryllium forwarded for further forensic and chemic examination," the DGP added.Also read: CCTV shows nonstop infinitesimal 'white-collar' module explosives exploded wrong Nowgam constabulary station"On relationship of the voluminous recovery, the process was ongoing for 2 days by the FSL team. Owing to the unstable and delicate quality of the recovery, it was being handled with utmost caution. However, during this process, an accidental detonation took spot astatine astir 11:20 PM connected 14 November 2025 (last night). Any different speculation astir the origin of this incidental is unnecessary." He said that successful this unfortunate incident, 9 radical mislaid their lives (1 SIA, 3 FSL personnel, 2 transgression helping officials, 2 gross officials, and 1 tailor who was associated with the team).

In addition, 27 constabulary personnel, 2 gross officials, and 3 civilians were injured. The injured were instantly evacuated to the hospital. The gathering of the constabulary presumption was severely damaged, and adjacent buildings were besides affected. The grade of the harm is being ascertained. "The origin of this unfortunate incidental is nether inquiry. J&K Police stands successful solidarity with the families of the deceased successful this hr of grief."The blast occurred portion a constabulary and forensic squad was examining explosive worldly seized from Faridabad, portion of the 2,900 kg chemic cache recovered from an arrested doc successful the case.Local residents described the chaos and fearfulness caused by the explosion. Shafad Ahmed said, “A large blast occurred astatine astir 11.20 p.m. past night. We were near shaken. We went to slumber aboriginal and recovered retired astir it this morning. We came present to spot things connected our own.

But they are not letting america spell to our relatives here. My relatives reside adjacent the Police Station. I person not been capable to talk with them. They (security personnel) are not letting america conscionable them, but they cannot assistance it either.

I had ne'er heard specified large blast successful my life.”Another section said, “My location is the 3rd location from the site. We don’t person immoderate accusation close present astir the civilian casualties. All the houses successful the vicinity person been damaged.”Officials said the blast occurred portion investigators were handling explosive worldly brought from Faridabad successful Haryana, linked to the ‘white-collar’ panic module.The explosives were portion of the 360 kg recovered from the rented residence of arrested doc Muzammil Ganaie. Six unidentified bodies were retrieved from the blast tract and shifted to the Police Control Room successful Srinagar.Twenty-nine constabulary unit and 3 civilians were hospitalised with injuries arsenic the late-night detonation damaged the constabulary presumption and triggered exigency sirens.

Officials said tiny successive explosions followed the main blast, slowing down rescue efforts by the weaponry disposal squad.While immoderate of the seized explosive worldly had been stored astatine the forensic lab, a large information remained astatine the Nowgam constabulary station, wherever the superior lawsuit is registered.The Director General of Police (DGP) J&K is scheduled to code the media astatine the Police Control Room successful Srinagar astatine 10.00am.