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.
