Three more bodies have been extricated from INS Sindhurakshak submarine that sank at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai after two blasts ripped through its hull on August 13.
“Since the past three days, we have been receiving one body for post mortem each day. The cause of death has been reserved until the histopathology and other forensic reports arrive. The bodies are intact with spinal cords,” said Dr TP Lahane, dean of JJ Hospital in Byculla. Sources at the hospital said that the prima facie cause of death is burns.
On August 19, the hospital had received the seventh body for the post mortem.
The process to identify the body has been initiated. Doctors at JJ Hospital’s forensic department have collected the tooth and bone samples for DNA identification have been sent samples to the Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL).
Dr Lahane said that the post mortem on the ten bodies has been completed and they are lying at the hospital’s morgue.
“We have not handed over the body (to the navy),” said Dr Lahane. According to the sources, the hospital also took X-ray scans of the bones to see if any shrapnel was lodged.
INS Sindhurakshak was returned in January by a Russian shipyard after a Rs480-crore overhaul meant to increase the warship’s life by 10 years.
Built in 1997 at St Petersburg, Russia, in 1997, the submarine was designed to patrol and to protect naval communications, assault warships, submarines and land targets, and perform naval reconnaissance.
Sunday 25 August 2013
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