Kin of Ehime Maru missing arrive in Hawaii+

WASHINGTON, The United States - Thirty-two kin of nine Japanese who went missing when a Japanese fisheries training ship sunk after colliding with a U.S. nuclear submarine near Hawaii are greeted at Honolulu International Airport by Lt. Gen. Thomas Case (above right in blue uniform), deputy commander of U.S. Pacific military forces, on Feb. 11. The relatives were later briefed on the accident, which occurred Feb. 9 about 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island. The Los Angeles-class attack sub USS Greeneville hit and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru, and 26 of the 35 people aboard the trawler were rescued.

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