US submarine collides with Japanese ship

TOKYO: A nuclear-powered US submarine and a Japanese commercial ship have collided near the Arabian Sea, US and Japanese officials said on Tuesday.

A Pentagon spokesman in Washington confirmed the report, saying the US submarine had collided with a Japanese merchant ship south of the Straits of Hormuz, located between Iran and Oman.

There had been no major damage due to the collision and the Japanese tanker was now at a port in the United Arab Emirates.

The 110-meter (360-foot) long submarine carries 127 officers and enlisted crew and is based in Norfolk, Virginia, according to the Navy's website.

On February 9, 2001 another nuclear-powered US submarine Greenville sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru during a rapid ascent off the coast of Hawaii, killing nine people on board, including four teenage students.
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