U.S. Navy destroyer, Philippines merchant vessel collide off Japan
WASHINGTON/TOKYO, June 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy said on Friday that one of its destroyers collided with a Philippine-flagged merchant vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, in the dead of night and Japanese media reported that seven U.S. crew members were missing. The Navy said in a statement that the USS Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel at about 2:30 a.m. local time (1730 GMT), some 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, a rare incident on a busy waterway. A U.S. official told Reuters that the Fitzgerald was still working to account for all personnel and could not confirm if any were missing.
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