India, Nov. 21 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday dismissed reports on social media surrounding the recent explosion at Nowgam Police Station as "conjectures" and "misleading" as it reiterated that the blast was "accidental".

An 'accidental' explosion at Nowgam Police station on November 14 killed nine persons, including an SIA inspector and a naib tehsildar. Authorities said the explosion occurred when samples from a cache of recovered explosives were being collected.

"It is reiterated that an accidental explosion occurred on 14 Nov 2025, while the process of sample collection, from the large cache of recovered explosive, for forensic examination, was being done by experts from Forensic Science Laboratory," the J&K Police said...