The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier was in a collision with a commercial ship in Mediterranean Sea close EgyptThe navy said Thursday. A naval spokesman said in a statement that there were no reports of injuries or floods after the collision.
The collision took place late on Wednesday night near Port, Egypt, according to a CMDR statement. Timothy Gorman, spokesman for the sixth fleet.
The collision is under investigation.
A navy official told CBS News that Truman was approaching the Suez Canal to go from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The official said that there was no evaluation at this time the ship was wrong.
The official said that Truman was damaged over the water line. It was not clear if it would happen to reforms.
The official said that the transfer of the carrier was not affected by the collision.
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The conveyor strike group in the eastern Mediterranean was about two months after combat operations in the field of US central responsibility, which includes parts of the Middle East, according to the second fleet.
The strike group carried out Air raids against ISIS In Somalia on February 1, according to the leadership of the American fleet forces. Last Thursday, the carrier arrived in Greece to visit the work port.
He contributed to this report.
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