Navy chief sacked

BUENOS AIRES: Argentinian Defence Minister Oscar Aguad has asked Marcelo Srur to step down as navy chief a month after the San Juan submarine went missing, local media reported on Saturday.

The conversation took place on Friday, just after Aguad formed a special commission to investigate the tragedy, La Nacion newspaper said. His duties would be temporally performed by Vice-Admiral Miguel Angel Mascolo. The ARA San Juan, with its crew of 44, stopped communicating on November 15 during a routine patrol in the South Atlantic, off the coast of Argentina.