A file photo of Rear Admiral SS Jamwal (the taller person in the photo), Chief of Staff of the Southern Naval Command, who got killed in accidental gunfire on Wednesday morning. Photo: Special Arrangement.
In a shocking incident, Rear Admiral S.S. Jamwal, Chief of Staff of the Southern Naval Command, was killed in accident gunfire at the Navy's missile and gunnery school INS Dronacharya at Fort Kochi, near here, on Wednesday.
The incident took place around 10.30 a.m. As per intitial reports, the Rear Admiral was at the small arms firing range of INS Dronacharya to oversee firing practice of trainees when he accidentally got hit. He died on the spot.
The Navy has constituted an internal Board of Inquiry to investigate the death of the Rear Admiral.
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