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Damaged ship being towed to dockyard

By Arunkumar Bhatt

MUMBAI, FEB. 7. INS Agray, the Navy's anti-submarine warfare corvette, crippled by a misfired rocket on Thursday night, is now being towed back to the naval dockyard here, from the exercise area about 100 nautical miles offshore.

Naval sources said that though the tugs were deployed to assist the ship, the towing was slow because its engine room was flooded after the explosion and the hull damaged.

INS Agray was hit by an anti-submarine rocket that she had fired in an exercise from one of her two RBU 1200 rocket launchers, an anti-submarine weapon having five tubes. The rocket, probably, malfunctioned and dropped on the corvette's side instead of taking on its intended underwater target.

There were no injuries to the crew and all of them were rescued by other warships. The Navy has instituted a board of inquiry. The warship was participating in a major naval exercise for three days.

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