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INS Sindhurakshak tragedy: Identifying bodies could take a week
Updated On: 18 August, 2013 08:16 AM IST | | Vinod Kumar Menon
Naval divers purse open rear hatch of the submarine, extract one more body. Efforts on to open front hatch. Meanwhile, forensic experts say DNA reports to identify the dead could take five to seven days
More than four days after tragic serial explosions on INS Sindhurakshak destroyed the submarine and killed several officers and men of the Indian Navy, naval divers extracted one more body from the submarine on Saturday, taking the number of bodies recovered to six in past two days.u00a0An entry of Accidental Death Register (ADR) has been made at the Colaba police station and the charred corpse sent for an autopsy to the JJ postmortem centre.

Salvage operations continued inside the Naval Dockyard on Saturday four days after a series of explosions rocked submarine INS Sindhurakshak on August 14. Pic/ Shadab Khan
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