NEW DELHI – Two Indian Navy personnel were killed Thursday at a Naval Base,Indian media has reported.
Both officials were killed when a door of an aircraft hangar collapsed atthe naval base, the Navy said.
The two, sailors attached to the aviation electrical branch, were”tragically killed when one of the hangar doors of the Indian Naval AirSquadron 322 collapsed at INS Garuda,” a defence statement said.Naveen (28)and Ajeet Singh (29) were passing by when the door was “dislodged from itssupporting rails above” and fell on them, it said.
Initial reports had said the two were killed when the hangar collapsed onthem.”Both the sailors were rushed in a critically injured state to thenaval hospital, INHS Sanjivani, where despite best efforts of the doctorsto resuscitate them, they succumbed to their injuries at about 9.40 am,”the statement said.
A board of inquiry has been ordered into the cause of the accident, it said.