WORLD BULLETINS

Bodies found in search of US ship

A SEARCH and rescue mission to find seven US sailors missing after an American destroyer collided with a merchant ship in waters off Japan has ended after bodies were found.

Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, commander of the US Navy’s 7th Fleet, told reporters at a base in Yokosuka, Japan, that a number of bodies had been recovered, though he would not say how many.

The USS Fitzgerald sustained significant damage in the collision with Philippineflagged ACX Crystal on Saturday at around 2.20am local time.

The bodies were found in flooded compartments on Sunday after the Fitzgerald returned to the base in Yokosuka with the help of tug boats.