India: Explosives seized in Faridabad detonate at police station, nine killed PHOTO

A powerful blast at the Nowgam police station in Srinagar, India, killed nine people and injured 32 others after a cache of explosives seized from Faridabad detonated during examination late at night on November 14. 

Most of the victims were policemen, forensic specialists, and local administration officials handling the highly unstable materials, Caliber.Az reports, citing foreign media.

According to Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat, the dead include a State Investigation Agency officer, three Forensic Science Laboratory personnel, two crime branch officials, two revenue officials, and a tailor assisting the team. Twenty-seven police personnel, two revenue officials, and three civilians were among the injured.

Authorities said the explosives had been recovered recently during a sweeping investigation that exposed a sophisticated terror module linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed. The Nowgam police station had earlier cracked the case of threatening JiM posters across the area, leading to the arrest of radicalised, highly qualified professionals—dubbed by investigators as “terror doctors.”

The probe began with the arrest of Adeel Ahmad Rather in October, whose detention exposed a white-collar terror network operating across Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana.

Subsequent investigations led to the discovery of nearly 3,000 kg of ammonium nitrate at locations linked to Dr Muzammil Shakeel in Faridabad, followed by the arrest of another doctor, Shaheen Saeed. The terror module is also suspected of involvement in the deadly car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort earlier this week, which killed 13.

DGP Prabhat stressed that the Nowgam blast was an accidental detonation due to the volatile nature of the material: “Any other speculation is unnecessary.” The incident marks one of the most serious operational accidents in recent years and comes as investigators race to dismantle what officials describe as an emerging “white-collar extremist ecosystem” guided by handlers abroad.

By Aghakazim Guliyev