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International desk: The US military said it had launched a search and resecue operation after reports a marine may have fallen overboard from an American warship as it sailed through Philippine waters.<\/p>\nInternational desk: The US military said it had launched a search and resecue operation after reports a marine may have fallen overboard from an American warship as it sailed through Philippine waters.<\/p>\n
The US 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit said a member, who was not named, may have gone overboard Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Aircraft on board the USS Essex are searching waters off the Sulu Sea and the Surigao Strait while multiple searches are also being made inside the ship itself, the unit said on its social media sites late Friday.<\/p>\n
The ship was conducting \u201croutine operations in the Sulu Sea\u201d at the time, the California based unit said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain committed to searching for and finding our marine,\u201d the statement quoted the marine unit\u2019s commander, Colonel Chandler Nelms as
\nsaying.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of our sailors, marines and available assets aboard the USS Essex have been and will continue to be involved in this incredibly important search and rescue operation,\u201d added the search commander, US Navy Captain Gerald Olin.<\/p>\n
The Philippine coastguard are also taking part in what is now an expanded\u00a0search covering about 3,000 square nautical miles (10,290 square kilometres), it added.<\/p>\n
Sulu Sea, the Philippines\u2019 largest inland waterway, sprawls over the central and southern sections of the Asian archipelago, a US military ally.<\/p>\n
Surigao Strait is at least 300 kilometres (186 miles) away, off the country\u2019s eastern seaboard.<\/p>\n
The statement did not explain why the two separate locations were being searched.<\/p>\n
Philippine navy and coastguard spokesmen in Manila told AFP Saturday they did not have a statement to make on the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International desk: The US military said it had launched a search and resecue operation after reports a marine may have fallen overboard from an American warship as it sailed through Philippine waters. The US 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit said a member, who was not named, may have gone overboard Thursday morning. Aircraft on board the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":46402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n