The US Navy' s top commander visited Japan Tuesday to meet the grieving families of seven sailors killed in a weekend accident, as investigators probe questions over the timing of the collision with a container ship. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation,…
TOKYO, Japan – The US Navy’s top commander visited Japan Tuesday to meet the grieving families of seven sailors killed in a weekend accident, as investigators probe questions over the timing of the collision with a container ship. Admiral John Richardson arrived at the US naval base in Yokosuka on the outskirts of Tokyo to meet bereaved relatives and officers who served on the USS Fitzgerald. “It’s an intimate meeting, very solemn grieving with families, so we’re not even taking photos, ” Commander Ron Flanders, press officer at the US Naval Forces in Japan, told AFP. The sailors, aged 19 to 37, were found in flooded sleeping berths a day after the collision tore a huge gash in the side of their guided-missile destroyer. Their bodies were being flown back to the US on Tuesday morning, according to the Commander US Naval Forces Japan. “Fitzgerald 7 are headed home; just left Japan…#FITZ crew, family on hand to say goodbye, ” it said on Twitter.
