A massive explosion rocked the Nowgam police station – where explosives recovered from the Red Fort blast-linked terror module were stored – in Srinagar late Friday night. While the police are yet to issue an official statement on the scale and cause of the explosion, sources said casualties are feared.

Such was the intensity that the blast could be heard 30 kilometres away. Following the explosion, the police station and several vehicles in the vicinity went up in flames. A large number of ambulances and fire tenders were rushed to the area a little before midnight.

Senior police and security officials also headed to Nowgam, which falls on the outskirts of Srinagar, and roads leading to the area were closed.

Sources said they are probing whether the explosives stored at the police stat

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