Top US Navy commander in Japan over destroyer crash
The US Navy's top commander visited Japan Tuesday to meet with the grieving families of seven sailors killed in a weekend accident, as investigators continue their probe into the cause 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 with bereaved families and officers who served on the USS Fitzgerald, said Commander Ron Flanders, press officer at the US Naval Forces in Japan.
"It's an intimate meeting, very solemn grieving with families so we're not even taking photos," he told AFP.
The navy destroyer was badly damaged in the collision with a Philippine-flagged cargo ship off the Japanese coast early Saturday.
The bodies of the US sailors were found in flooded sleeping berths a day after the accident which tore a huge gash in the side of the warship.
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