By SudOuest.fr with AFP
Nuclear-powered submarine hit by unidentified object in China Sea while participating in international naval exercise
The crashed US nuclear submarine in the South China Sea arrived in Guam, a Pacific island and US territory on Friday, with 11 injured on board, two more seriously than the others, according to a US official.
On Thursday, the US Navy announced that the USS Connecticut, a nuclear-powered Seawolf-class submarine, had “struck an object in the afternoon of October 2 while navigating submerged in the waters. of the Indo-Pacific region ”.
“The USS Connecticut struck an object in the afternoon of October 2 while sailing submerged in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region,” the US Navy said in a statement. “There is no fatal injury.”
Naval exercise
According to the Naval Institute, a think tank close to the US Navy, the USS Connecticut was participating in an international naval exercise during the incident.
China is claiming almost all of the South China Sea and has built military outposts there on small islands and atolls in the region, said “gravely concerned” on Friday. The United States and its allies regularly patrol the region’s international waters to assert their rights to free navigation, much to China’s annoyance.
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