Mumbai: The Indian Navy on Friday extricated three bodies from the compartments of disaster-struck submarine INS Sindhurakshak which sank on August 14. It said that it is unlikely that any survivors would be found on the submarine.
The Navy has also said that the intensity of destruction around the control room area of the submarine indicated that the possibility of locating the corpses were bleak. Add to this, the high explosion along with high temperatures would have also incinerated bodies.
There were 18 personnel, including three officers, who were trapped inside the 2,300 tonne Russian-made submarine and all the remaining 15 are feared dead.
The Navy had on Thursday released the names of the three officers and 15 sailors who were in the 16-year-old warship.
The three officers are Lieutenant Commanders Nikhilesh Pal, Alok Kumar and R Venkitaraj. The sailors stuck inside the Kilo class vessel are Sanjeev Kumar, KC Upadhya, Timothy Sinha, Kewal Singh, Sunil Kumar Dasari Prasad, Liju Lawrence, Rajesh Tootika, Amit K Singh, Atul Sharma, Vikas E Naruttam Deuri, Malay Haldar, Vishnu V and Seetaram Badapalli.
In what is being described as one of the worst disasters to have struck the Indian Navy, a series of explosions rocked INS Sindhurakshak on Wednesday at the Mumbai dockyard, sinking it partially in the three-metre-deep sea.
“We are deeply pained that we lost the submarine, INS Sindurakshak in an accident yesterday.
Eighteen brave sailors are feared to have lost their lives,” the Prime Minister had said in his speech on the 67th Independence Day.
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