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Indian naval authorities say they hope to salvage a 3,000-tonne warship which ran aground on Monday after colliding with a merchant ship.
The INS Vindhyagiri collided with a Cyprus-flagged merchant vessel on Sunday in Mumbai and caught fire.
The incident has been described by critics as one of the navy's most embarrassing peacetime incidents.
About 400 passengers and crew who were on board the warship at the time of the collision had to rescued.
Some media reports say that the stricken ship sustained serious damage when it hit the seabed at the naval dockyard in Mumbai, but there has been no official acknowledgement of the damage.
At the time of the accident, the warship was returning from a "day at sea" for families of sailors and officers ....