India, Nov. 15 -- Nine people were killed and 32 injured in an accidental blast at the Nowgam police station on the outskirts of Srinagar on Friday night when police and forensic experts were extracting samples from a cache of explosives recovered from Faridabad, Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Nalin Prabhat said on Saturday.

Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Prabhat said a huge quantity of explosive substances, chemicals and reagents were recovered from the terror module busted in Faridabad on November 10. "Samples of the recovery had to be forwarded for further forensic and chemical examination. On account of the voluminous nature of the recovery, this process was going on for the past two days, which means Friday and the day b...