US Navy says remains found by Malaysia not of a USS McCain sailor
24 Aug 2017 4:34 PM GMT
SINGAPORE: The US Navy said on Thursday human remains found by Malaysia were not one of its 10 sailors missing after a collision between one of its guided-missile destroyers and a merchant vessel east of Singapore this week.
Medical examination of the remains, which the Malaysian navy discovered about eight nautical miles northwest of where the USS John S. McCain and a merchant vessel collided on Monday, confirmed it was not one of the 10 sailors, the US Seventh Fleet said in a statement. The body would be returned to Malaysian authorities.
An international search-and-rescue operation involving aircraft, divers and vessels is looking for the missing sailors over an area of about 5,500 square kilometres around the crash site.
On Tuesday, US Navy and Marine divers found remains of missing sailors inside sealed sections of the damaged hull of the John S. McCain, which is moored at Singapore's Changi Naval Base. The Navy has not announced the identity or number of those found in the ship.
Four sailors injured in the crash left a Singapore hospital on Wednesday and have returned to duty, the US Seventh Fleet said.
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