An Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft ‘inadvertently’ dropped a tank that fell on a house in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Friday, causing severe damage to the property but no injuries or casualties were reported, the Indian media said.
The IAF launched an inquiry into the incident and said that it regretted the damage caused to the property “by the inadvertent drop of a non-explosive aerial store from the aircraft”. In a post on X after the incident, the IAF said that it had instituted an inquiry into the incident.
0media reports said “a heavy metal object fell from the sky from an air force jet on the house of Manoj Sagar [ ] due to which two outer rooms have been damaged”. Quoting Shivpuri’s Superintendent of Police Aman Singh Rathor, Indian media reported that four people were in the house. “No one was harmed out of the four,” the media quoted Rathor as telling the reporters. “Police and administration team is on the spot.”