Click to play videoCochin: A top Naval officer was killed in an accidental firing at the Naval base here on Wednesday. Rear Admiral SS Jamwal was shot during a training session in the firing range.
Jamwal was the chief of the Southern Naval Command. An enquiry has been ordered into the incident.
He was killed in a firing incident at INS Dronacharya, the training establishment of the Navy. Details about the incident which took place at 10.30 am are awaited. Police sources said the body has been shifted to a hospital.
He was inspecting a 9 mm Beretta gun which had malfunctioned when it accidentally fired. He is suspected to have died of head injury.
"He was accompanied with his entire staff. It was an official and planned visit at the firing range to check the progress of the training. He was holding the pistol and did not expect that it would fire, but it did," said Naval officer in-charge Kerala, Commodore MR Ajaya Kumar. It was a "misfire", Kumar said, adding the rear admiral "was declared dead in a hospital".
Jamwal was commissioned in the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer on 01 Jul 1980 and had specialised in Anti Submarine Warfare.
He was an alumnus of Lawrence School Sanawar, National Defence Academy, Grechko Naval War College USSR, Defence Services Staff College Wellington and Army War College.
His afloat appointments included tenures on Indian Naval Ships Taragiri, Atul, Rajput, Ranvijay and Command of Ships Vibhuti and Kuthar, Commissioning Executive Officer of Guided Missile Destroyer Delhi and Commissioning Commanding Officer of Guided Missile Frigate Beas.
His staff appointments at IHQ MoD (Navy) included Joint Director of Staff Requirement and Director Naval Operations. Training appointments include Executive Officer at Naval Academy, Goa and Instructor at ASW School, Kochi.
He has also been the ADC to the President of India from 1983 to 1985. On promotion to Flag Rank on 01 Sep 09, he took over as Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command.
Prior to this he was the Naval Attache at the Indian Embassy at Moscow, Russia. The Admiral is survived by his wife and two children.
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