Another naval accident, one navy officer dead on board INS Kolkata

Mumbai: Just weeks before Indian Navy’s most modern destroyer, INS Kolkata, was to be commissioned, the warship was hit by an accident at the Mazgoan Dockyard in Mumbai on today.

While some reports claimed that there was a blast, others suggested that it was only a gas leak due to the malfunctioning of the Carbon Dioxide unit.

The Navy said in a statement,Yard-701 had a malfunction, leading to gas leakage. One naval officer and some MDL personnel have been hospitalised.

However, multiple reports have claimed that a naval officer of Commander Rank died in the mishap. He has been identified as Kuntal Wadhwa.

INS Kolkata is the lead ship of the Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyers. The other two ships in the class would be INS Chennai and INS Kochi.

Bureau Report