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‘Water ingress’ incident on Navy vessel, no casualties reported
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Published 10/31/2026 2:25:36 PM
‘Water ingress’ incident on Navy vessel, no casualties reported | India News
NEW DELHI: The
Indian Navyon Saturday confirmed an incident of “water ingress” (flooding) on one of its ships while the vessel was berthed at the Naval Dockyard in
Visakhapatnam. The incident was reported on INS Kesari, a Shardul-class tank landing ship.
The Navy, in an official statement, said that “no casualties have been reported”. Efforts to pump out the water are underway, it added.
INS Kesari, which was commissioned on April 5, 2008, has a 5,650-tonne displacement.
Deployed in May 2020 for Mission Sagar, INS Kesari had delivered Covid-19 relief material, medical assistance and food items to nations in the southern Indian Ocean, such as Maldives, Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros and Seychelles.
