Body found inside sunken Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Nel Sheehan speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Oct. 16. He said U.S. Navy divers found the body of one of nine people who went missing after their 499-ton Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru was struck and sunk off Hawaii by a U.S. submarine in February.

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