Official on board Navy ship dies of bullet injury

Kochi, October 1 : A Naval official died on Sunday after he mysteriously sustained a bullet injury on board a hydrograhic survey ship anchored in this Kerala coastal city that houses the Southern Naval Command, police said.
According to naval authorities, a gunshot was heard at 7.30 am around the INS Jamuna. Minutes later, Raksha Kumar Parmar, a security official with the Indian Navy, was found wounded. He was rushed to a nearby naval hospital where he died around 9.40 am, the police said. The naval and police authorities have begun a probe to find out if it was an accident or suicide.