Dead sailors found
YOKOSUKA: The bodies of missing sailors were found in flooded compartments of the USS Fitzgerald, which came close to sinking after a collision with a container ship off Japan tore a gash under the warship’s waterline, the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet commander said yesterday.
The Fitzgerald collided with the merchant vessel more than three times its size south-west of Yokosuka early on Saturday. The search at sea has been called off, US Seventh fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Joseph Aucoin said.
He said the Fitzgerald could have sunk but for the crew’s desperate efforts to save the ship.– Reuters