US 🇺🇸 warship collides with Japanese tug

A US warship has sustained minor damage after a collision with a Japanese tug off central Japan, the US Navy says.

The commercial tug lost propulsion and drifted into the guided-missile destroyer, the USS Benfold, during a towing exercise in Sagami Bay.

"No one was injured on either vessel," the US Navy says, adding that an investigation is under way.

On August, 10 US sailors were killed when the USS John S McCain collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore. In June, seven US sailors died in a collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship in Japanese waters near the port city of Yokosuka.

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