US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift has said divers searching for 10 missing sailors on an American warship that collided with an oil tanker off Singapore have found human remains.
The USS John S. McCain collided with the oil tanker Alnic MC on Monday morning local time while the guided-missile destroyer was passing near the Malacca Strait to make a port visit in Singapore, the Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement.
“The divers were able to locate some remains in those sealed compartments during their search today,” Swift told reporters on Tuesday at Singapore’s Changi Naval Base. He was referring to a search by divers of compartments on the damaged warship.
Swift also said that Malaysian authorities, one of three countries involved in the major hunt for the missing sailors who are feared dead, had also found a body.
He added that the US Navy was trying to identify the body to see if it was one of 10 missing US sailors in the…