at least Nine people died Police sources said 29 people were injured when a pile of confiscated explosives exploded at a police station in Indian Kashmir on Friday evening, days after a car explosion in New Delhi. … Eight people were killed.
The majority of those killed were police officers, including experts who analyzed explosives, according to sources who preferred to remain anonymous. Some of the wounded are in critical condition.They added.
One of the sources said: “The bodies are being identified, as some of them were completely burned.”
“The intensity of the explosion was very great Human remains were found in nearby houses, about 100-200 meters away. From the police station.”
The police chief of India’s federally administered Jammu and Kashmir region is expected to hold a press conference on the incident soon.
Earlier, a local police officer told Reuters that an explosion rocked Nogam police station. The officer added that the building caught fire and that firefighters rushed to the scene.
The explosion comes four days after a car bomb exploded in the Indian capital, New Delhi, killing at least eight people The government classified it as a terrorist incident.
India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed neighbors, have been fighting periodic wars for decades over the disputed Kashmir region, which they both claim in full and govern only partially.
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