The Indian navy launched an inquiry Saturday into the cause of a naval ship accident that killed an officer and injured two dock workers, officials said.

A gas leak Friday on board the yet-to-be commissioned INS Kolkata killed Commander Kuntal Wadhwa after he inhaled carbon dioxide during trials, according to reports.

An Indian naval officer was killed and "some" dock workers were injured Friday in a gas leak aboard a yet-to-be commissioned naval ship, the defense ministry said.

The accident was the 11th involving a naval vessel in the past 11 months, the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party said.

Two Indian naval officers who went missing after a submarine accident off the coast of Mumbai have been found dead, the defense ministry said Thursday.

Wednesay's incident on board the Russian-built INS Sindhuratna, the latest in a string of naval mishaps, also left seven crew members injured and led the chief of naval staff to resign.

Indian police have detained a group of 49 foreign nationals who were shooting a reality television show for illegally possessing satellite phones, a police official said Sunday.

Police seized the phones from the foreigners in West Bengal state, where they were apparently shooting the European show "Peking Express" that documents contestants hitchhiking across countries, the official said.

A stampede killed at least 18 people in India's financial hub Mumbai as a large crowd gathered to pay their last respects to a Muslim spiritual leader, police said.

More than 40 were also injured in the chaos that erupted shortly after midnight local time when the gates were shut to the residence of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who died aged 102 Friday.

Fire tore through an Indian train full of sleeping passengers on Wednesday, killing nine people and forcing survivors to break open doors to escape, officials and a witness said.

The blaze raced through three carriages shortly after the train left Mumbai for the northern city of Dehradun. It comes less than a fortnight after 26 people were killed in a similar tragedy on India's massive rail network.

A major fire ripped through a tightly-packed slum in the Indian city of Mumbai on Thursday, destroying dozens of shanties as residents desperately tried to douse the flames.

Sixteen fire engines, eight water tankers and three ambulances rushed to the scene in the city's southern tip after the blaze broke out late morning, the fire brigade said.

Indian police on Tuesday arrested three officials working for the Mumbai city government over the collapse of an apartment block last week that killed 60 people, a spokesman said.

The accident happened early on Friday while more than 90 people were inside the building owned by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM). It was the latest in a string of collapses to hit the financial capital.

Mumbai's municipal government said it has suspended seven engineers and is investigating another 11 members of staff after the collapse of a five-story residential building last week, which left 60 people dead.

The collapse happened at daybreak on Friday while more than 90 people were inside the building owned by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), which has said it asked residents earlier this year to move out.

The death toll from the collapse of a residential block in Mumbai rose to 60 on Sunday as rescuers ended their search operation with all the missing accounted for, officials said.

The five-story block in the city's east, home to 22 families and owned by the municipal authority, came crashing down in a mass of rubble at daybreak on Friday.