The explosion took place while a diving bailout bottle, a small 12-inch oxygen bottle which is carried by divers in their diving helmet, was being charged, a Navy official said.The plastic bags actually contained medical waste, it was found later, another official said. "The explosion happened while the crew was working on the deck of the ship," he said.Three sailors were injured, including one who sustained serious injuries and his right leg has been amputated from just above the knee.They were admitted in Military Hospital, Trivandrum as ship was on it way to Mumbai from Visakhapatnam.Incident occurred on April 16 on China CAP MOULD MAIN CONFIGURE-COOLING CORE Company board INS Nireekshak and the Navy has ordered an inquiry.

A sailor lost his leg while two others were injured in an oxygen cylinder explosion onboard an Indian naval ship.Later at a press conference, DC South West Division Nilanjan Biswas said it appeared the bags contained foetuses.Incident occurred on April 16 on board INS Nireekshak and the Navy, which had remained tight lipped till now, has ordered an inquiry.Following what seemed a shocking revelation, Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and other officials rushed to the spot.Two other sailors received splinter injuries in the stomach region and legs. The sailors were stated to be in a stable condition and have now been shifted to Mumbai.Initially, police officials said they were verifying whether the bags recovered from the Haridebpur area contained bodies of newborns or foetuses.

The plastic bags were found on the grassy land on Raja Rammohan Roy Sarani under the Haridebpur Police station area when labourers were cleaning the patch, the official said.Kolkata: The 14 plastic bags recovered from a vacant piece of land in the southern part of Kolkata contained only medical waste and not bodies of newborns or foetuses as stated earlier, police said on Sunday.Within an hour of his earlier comment, Biswas took a U-turn saying after examination at a hospital it was found that the bags contained medical waste and there was "no sign of any human foetus".He said that such an incident has never happened in history of the Indian Navy.