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| India navy ship blast kills officer | India navy ship blast kills officer |
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| An Indian navy officer has been killed in an accident on board a ship under construction at a dockyard in Mumbai, naval officials told the BBC. | |
| The destroyer had been undergoing mechanical trials when a blast on board led to a toxic gas leak. | |
| Last month, two sailors died after an accident on board a submarine at sea, the INS Sindhuratna. | |
| India's navy chief quit after that, the latest in a series of operational mishaps involving naval vessels. | India's navy chief quit after that, the latest in a series of operational mishaps involving naval vessels. |
| Last year 18 sailors died in one of the navy's worst disasters when a submarine sank after a fire at the same dockyard in Mumbai. | Last year 18 sailors died in one of the navy's worst disasters when a submarine sank after a fire at the same dockyard in Mumbai. |
| "INS Kolkata-class destroyer ship Yard-701... suffered malfunction in its carbon dioxide unit while undergoing machinery trials, leading to gas leakage," the navy said in a press release. | |
| Media reports say the officer inhaled a large amount of toxic gas and was taken to hospital, where he died. | |
| Friday's accident is thought to be the 12th involving a navy vessel in the last seven months. | |
| Navy chief Admiral DK Joshi quit after the INS Sindhuratna deaths, accepting "moral responsibility" for that and other operational accidents involving navy ships under his watch. | |
| The navy blamed that accident on "human error" and said that officers had "deviated from standard operating procedure". |