New Delhi, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):Three Indian Navy personnel were killed and ten others were injured in an explosion in Mumbai. The explosion occurred in an internal compartment of INS Ranvir at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, the Indian Navy said.

All three dead were sailors. Ten others on board were injured and are being treated at the Mumbai naval hospital. An “internal compartment” would mean one of the many compartments on the ship. It is yet to be ascertained what caused the blast.

INS Ranvir has been on operational deployment since November 2021. Its home base is on the East Coast and it was due to return to its base shortly. The 147-metre-long warship, when fully loaded, has a displacement of 4,900 tonnes. The fourth of the five Rajput-class destroyers, INS Ranvir was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1986.

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