Search team finds bodies of missing sailors inside US Navy shipwreck

The bodies of seven sailors’ declared missing after a US Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine container ship off the coast of Japan, have been found inside the wreckage of the damaged ship.

Yoko Kato, a spokeswoman for the US navy, said divers had gained access to spaces that were damaged during the collision and found a number of bodies.

She said, however, that not all seven missing sailors had been accounted for.

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According to the US 7th Fleet, the incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning local time, with sea and air search still continuing at the site of the collision, 56 nautical miles (103km) southwest of Yokosuka, Japan.

The statement further revealed that the Fitzgerald was operating about 56 miles southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, when it hit the container ship at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time sustaining damage on its starboard side and experiencing flooding in some spaces in the ship.

 

 

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