A cache of confiscated explosives detonated inside a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing no less than 9 individuals and injuring 32 others, police mentioned on Saturday.
The blast occurred within the Nowgam space of Srinagar, the area’s important metropolis, late Friday when a group of forensic consultants and police had been inspecting the explosive materials, mentioned Nalin Prabhat, the area’s police director-general. He dominated out any foul play, saying it was an accident.
The lifeless included six police and forensic officers, two civil directors and one civilian, authorities mentioned. A number of the injured had been in vital situation.
A veiled Kashmiri lady is stopped by an Indian police officer earlier than being allowed to cross a brief checkpoint close to the location of an explosion inside a police station in Srinagar, Kashmir, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025.
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The police station blast got here days after Monday’s lethal automotive explosion in New Delhi, which killed no less than eight individuals close to the town’s historic Crimson Fort. Indian officers known as it a “heinous terror incident” carried out by “anti-national forces.” The automotive blast occurred hours after police in Kashmir mentioned that they had dismantled a suspected militant cell working from the disputed area, arresting no less than seven individuals, together with two medical doctors from Indian cities, and seizing a big amount of bomb-making materials within the metropolis of Faridabad, close to New Delhi.
Indian safety businesses have since carried out a sequence of raids in Kashmir as a part of their investigation into the automotive blast, questioning a whole bunch whereas detaining scores others.
Indian police mentioned Saturday they used DNA to determine the automotive’s driver and that he was a Kashmiri physician. Authorities forces blew up his household house within the southern district of Pulwama on Thursday evening, officers mentioned.
Previously, troops have demolished properties of suspects they accuse of being tied to militants combating in opposition to Indian administration in Kashmir as a punishment.
Indian cops patrol close to the location of an explosion inside a police station in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.
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Police had introduced the explosive materials seized in Faridabad to Kashmir as a part of their investigation and had been “kept securely in an open area” on the police station, the place the investigation that led to the suspected militant cell started final month, in line with Prabhat, the highest officer.
Prabhat mentioned a group of consultants was taking samples for forensic investigation when the blast occurred, calling it an “accidental explosion.”
“Any other speculation into the cause of this incident is unnecessary,” he mentioned.
The blast may very well be heard from miles away in Srinagar, locals mentioned. A number of the victims’ physique elements had been recovered from close by homes, over 300 toes away from the police station. A number of homes additionally suffered injury.
“The explosion produced a deafening roar that rattled houses and flung open windows closed tight,” Bashir Ahmed, a resident, instructed The Related Press.
Practically a dozen kin of Mohammad Shafi Parray, killed within the blast, assembled at his house in Nowgam and marched in protest to the police station, chanting: “We want justice.”
Relations of Mohammad Shafi Parray, a Kashmiri civilian who was killed when a cache of confiscated explosives detonated inside a police station, mourn as they await his physique outdoors his residence in Srinagar, Indian managed Kashmir, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025.
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One in all Parry’s kin, who didn’t give her identify, mentioned the deceased, a tailor by occupation, was summoned by the police Friday evening. “Why did (the police) take him?” she shouted.
A neighborhood police officer, talking on situation of anonymity in line with departmental coverage, mentioned the tailor had been known as to the station to sew baggage for storing explosive materials samples.
India and Pakistan every administer part of Kashmir, however each declare the territory in its entirety.
Militants within the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir have been combating New Delhi’s administration since 1989. India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the cost, and plenty of Kashmiris contemplate it a professional freedom battle.
