Srinagar, Nov 15: In an unprecedented incident, at least 9 people were killed and over 25 became critical late night on Friday as a huge pile of confiscated explosives stored at a police station in Nowgam near Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar went off all of a sudden.

Most of those killed were policemen and forensic team officials, who were examining the explosives. Two officials from the Srinagar administration also died in the explosion.

The blast occurred while they were handling the explosive material that had been brought from Haryana's Faridabad recently.

The injured have been rushed to the Indian Army's 92 Base Hospital and Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS).

Following the mishap, senior police officials reached Nowgam to take stock of the matter.