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- Three civilians of the Nowgam area are among the thirty people who have been injured due to the Friday night’s blast after the explosive that was seized in Faridabad detonated at the police station.
- Local residents have said that the authorities should have been more careful in the handling of explosives and avoided keeping them in the residential area.
- Police have said that the forensic examination of the explosive substance was going on when it exploded.
Fifty-year-old Rafiq Ahmad Bhat’s head was wrapped in a cast, and he had received stitches after he was hit by a window that blew away at his house in the Nowgam area of Srinagar on Friday. A blast at the neighbourhood police station that day left nine people dead and thirty others injured. Rafiq was boiling water in his kitchen for gargling because of swelling in his teeth, and was about to go to bed when the blast rocked the area. Initially, he thought that a gas cylinder had blown up, but then he realised it was the explosive substance at the police station that had detonated. |
