Fire on INS Brahmaputra at Mumbai's Naval Dockyard

A fire erupted aboard the indigenous frigate INS Brahmaputra while it was undergoing refit at the Mumbai Naval Dockyard

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In the wake of the fire, all personnel aboard the ship were accounted for except for one junior sailor.

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