Srinagar: The powerful explosion that ripped through Srinagar’s Nowgam Police Station on Friday night, killing nine people and injuring over 30, has drawn immediate comparisons with one of Kashmir’s worst military accidents - the 1994 blast at the Indian Army’s Field Ordnance Depot (FOD) in Badami Bagh Cantonment.

The parallels between the two incidents have triggered renewed scrutiny of how seized explosives are stored and examined in the conflict-hit region.

The March 29, 1994, explosion inside the 15 Corps headquarters occurred when Army Ordnance Corps personnel were inspecting arms and ammunition recovered during counter-insurgency operations.

Parliamentary records later confirmed that 13 Army personnel, including senior officers, were killed, while contemporaneous reports placed th

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