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A day after an Indian warship, INS Brahmaputra, was destroyed following a massive fire broke out on it, a probe into the matter has been handed over to a Rear Admiral rank officer, defence sources informed India Today TV...
Chief of Naval Staff, Dinesh Tripathi, on Tuesday reviewed the condition of the warship and instructed the naval officials to deal with the national assets with great care, the source said..
He also asked the officials to fix accountability as one sailor who was onboard went missing during the incident...
The fire was brought under control by the ships crew with the assistance of firefighters from the naval dockyard and other ships in harbour by Monday morning, the navy said in its statement.. Further, follow-on actions including sanitisation checks for assessment of residual risk of fire were carried out...
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