Human remains found inside US ship
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DIVERS searching for 10 missing sailors on a US destroyer that collided with a tanker off Singapore have found human remains, a US admiral said yesterday.
The accident off Singapore, which left a gaping gash in the destroyer’s hull, was the second deadly collision in two months involving an American warship.
The US Navy has announced a fleet-wide global investigation after the incident on Monday involving the USS John S. McCain and the merchant vessel.
The accident — which also left five sailors injured — happened before dawn in busy shipping lanes around the Strait of Singapore, and sent water flooding into the ship.
A massive search involving planes and aircraft was launched and US Navy divers joined the hunt yesterday, searching the ship’s flooded compartments.
Speaking in Singapore, Admiral Scott Swift said that “the divers were able to locate some remains in those sealed compartments during their search today.”
He said bodies were found during “the diving on McCain today but it’s premature to say how many and what the status of recovery those bodies are.”
Swift said Malaysian authorities had also found a body and were sending it to the US Navy for identification. The Malaysian navy said one of its ships had found a body eight nautical miles northwest of the accident site.
Swift said the search and rescue effort, involving hundreds of personnel and several countries, would continue.
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