HVF orders probe into mishap which killed Armyman

Heavy Vehicles Factory here today ordered a probe into a mishap during the trial of a battle tank in which an Armyman died, defence sources said.

Siva Sakthivel, a soldier in the rank of Naik, and a native of Theni District of Tamil Nadu became unconscious after he inhaled "Halon" a liquefied, compressed gas used for fire fighting inside the T-72 tank, and later died yesterday.

He was taken out of the tank by HVF personnel and rushed to a hospital within the factory at suburban Avadi and from there to a government hospital where he was declared dead, the sources said.

HVF, the flagship battle tank manufacturing facility under the Ordnance Factory Board of Ministry of Defence, has constituted a Panel of Inquiry to go into the cause of the mishap and the probe has just begun, sources told

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