Mumbai: Two Officers of INS Sindhuratna are missing and five sailors airlifted to a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday morning after smoke was detected on board the submarine, forcing it to surface.
Sources say it was being sea-tested after a refit, about 40 to 50 km off the Mumbai coast when the smoke was detected. The senior-most submarine officer of the Western Naval Command was on board.
The submarine was carrying no weapons or ammunition. Since it was still in testing mode, it had not been placed under operational command yet.
In August last year, another Navy submarine, the INS Sindhurakshak, sank in the Mumbai harbour after an explosion on board, killing 18 sailors.
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