Nowgam blast LIVE updates: 9 dead; police probing cause, PDP cancels bypoll win celebration

NOwgam blare unrecorded updates: followers the tragical blowup that ripped through the Nowgam Police Station in J&K's Srinagar on Friday night, Director General of Police, Nalin Prabhat, termed it an accidental explosion and said that any speculations in the incident are unnecessary as the probe is underway.Addressing the media, Prabhat said the police station suffered huge damage, while adjoining buildings were affected too. A probe is underway to ascertain the cause of the explosion that left 9 dead.A powerful blast took place in Jammu and Kashmir's Nowgam on Friday night, killing at least nine people. The explosion took place while police officers and an FSL team were conducting an inspection inside the premises.A link between the latest blast and the terror bust module in Faridabad last week has also reportedly emerged. The samples that the officers inspecting was recently seized in Faridabad in connection with the 'white-collar' terror module case, reported news agency PTI.The explosion comes days after a blast involving a Hyundai i20 car near Red Fort in Delhi killed at least 10 people, triggering a huge probe. Investigators later found out that the man in the driving seat of the car was Umar-un Nabi, a doctor from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.Probe also found links between the Delhi blast and the Faridabad raids. It was found out that the doctor behind the wheels of the car had ties to a terror module linked to the seizure of a huge cache of explosive material in Faridabad.The raids in Faridabad came ahead of the high-intensity explosion near Red Fort, and had led to the seizure of around 2,900 kg of ammonium nitrate and other bomb-making materials.Nowgam blast | Key points-Security has been beefed up near the Nowgam police station in Srinagar where the blast happened on Friday night.-Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat and Inspector General of Central Reserve Police Force Pawan Kumar Sharma visited the blast site and the surrounding area on Saturday morning.-J&K DGP Nalin Prabhat held a press conference on Saturday morning about the blast and clarified the circumstances surrounding Friday night’s explosion at the Nowgam police station.-He said that the “accidental explosion” took place at around 11.20 pm on Friday night even though the sampling process and handling of the recovery, which included huge quantity of explosive substances, chemicals and regents, was being done with “utmost caution by the FSL team”.-He also said that any other speculation into the cause of this incident is unnecessary.-The nine people who died in the blast include one personnel of State Investigation Agency, three personnel of the forensics team, two crime scene photographers, two revenue officials who were part of the magistrate's team, and one tailor who was associated with the team, said Prabhat.