Srinagar, Nov 15: A Naib Tehsildar was among 9 dead and 29 others were injured after a high-intensity blast ripped through Nowgam police station in Srinagar late last night, officials said.<\/p>\n
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An official told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the blast occurred when a confiscated explosive stored inside the police station explosive went off.<\/p>\n
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He said that the explosive – most probably ammonium nitrate – was recently brought in from Haryana\u2019s Faridabad to Nowgam police station. The explosive was seized after Jammu and Kashmir police and Faridabad police busted an alleged doctors\u2019 terror module.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMost of the dead are policemen and FSL team members. A Naib Tehsildar and a local tailor is also among the dead, while 29 others are injured. Some of the injured are in a critical condition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The official added that identification of the bodies is underway as some have been completely burnt. The intensity of the blast was such that some of the body parts were recovered from nearby houses – around 100-200 meters away from the police station,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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He added that the injured have been admitted to Army\u2019s 92 Base hospital in Srinagar and SKIMS Soura for treatment, while some have been admitted to a local private hospital for treatment\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar, Nov 15: A Naib Tehsildar was among 9 dead and 29 others were injured after a high-intensity blast ripped through Nowgam police station in Srinagar late last night, officials said. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the blast occurred when a confiscated explosive stored inside the police station explosive went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92266,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92264\/revisions\/92266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}