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Search on for 4 naval personnel
The Navy officials said the Board of Inquiry would look into various aspects of the accident and find out what led to the sinking of the 31-year-old vessel.
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Visakhapatnam: The officials of Eastern Naval Command are continuing their search for four missing personnel who went down along with the Torpedo Recovery Vessel, 35 nautical miles off Visakhapatnam coast on Thursday evening. An autopsy was performed on the sailor body at King George Hospital.
A Board of Inquiry was ordered into the sinking of the vessel on Friday. In view of the incident, Navy Chief Admiral R K Dhowan, who is on a four-day visit to Seychelles till November 9, is cutting short his visit to reach Visakhapatnam, Navy officials said.
The Navy officials said the Board of Inquiry would look into various aspects of the accident and find out what led to the sinking of the 31-year-old vessel. The vessel had sunk at 8 pm while it was on a "routine" mission to recover practice torpedoes fired by fleet ships during a "routine" exercise, a Navy statement had said. The vessel experienced flooding in one of the compartments, they said.
The release said a sailor lost his life during the rescue operation and four personnel were reported missing. Twenty three personnel were rescued safely by the Search and Rescue (SAR) ships dispatched to the area. The ship was built by Goa Shipyard Limited in 1983 and served the Indian Navy for the last 31 years.
The Malkapuram police registered a case in connection with the death of a sailor after a Torpedo Recovery Vessel (TRV) of the Indian Navy sunk off the Vizag coast. Based on the report lodged by the Eastern Naval Command, the police registered a case under section 174 CrPC (Police to enquire and report on suicide), Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) G Ramgopal Naik said.
The latest accident is one of the many in the series that the Navy has witnessed over the last year. Dhowan took over as the Chief of the Naval Staff on April 17 after his predecessor D K Joshi quit in the wake of a series of accidents.
Admiral Joshi's resignation came immediately after a fire on the INS Sindhuratna, which left two sailors dead. On October 31, INS Kora suffered a minor damage after it was scraped by a merchant vessel near Visakhapatnam.
