The 2 U.S. Navy sailors who have been reported lacking after falling into water whereas conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, have been recognized as U.S. Navy SEALs, in response to the U.S. Central Command.
The pair have been climbing aboard a vessel whereas on a mission within the Gulf of Aden when excessive waves knocked one into the ocean.
The second SEAL jumped in after the opposite as a part of Navy SEAL protocol to assist a companion in misery and each vanished, The Related Press stated.
Each SEALs are nonetheless lacking and a search and rescue mission continues.
TWO U.S NAVY SAILORS MISSING OFF COAST OF SOMALIA: CENTRAL COMMAND
A aircraft comes into land over a secured seashore space close to the runway of Aden Adde Worldwide Airport at solar set on September 4, 2022 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Ed Ram/Getty Pictures)
The waters within the Gulf of Aden, the place they have been working, are heat, U.S. officers instructed The AP.
Officers additionally instructed The AP that the incident was not associated to Operation Prosperity Guardian, the continued U.S. and worldwide mission to supply safety to business vessels within the Purple Sea, or the retaliatory strikes that the US and the UK have carried out in Yemen over the previous two days.
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Somali maritime police patrol the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Puntland State, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photograph/Jackson Njehia)
The incident was additionally not associated to Iran seizing an oil tanker, officers stated.
The main points of the Navy SEALs’ mission and which vessel they have been attempting to board are nonetheless unclear.
In a press release made on Saturday, the U.S. Central Command stated it could not launch extra info on the Thursday night time incident till the personnel restoration mission is full.
On this picture supplied on Friday Jan. 12, 2024 by the UK Ministry of Defence an RAF Storm plane returns to base at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, after putting targets in Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed greater than a dozen websites utilized by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen late on Thursday Jan. 11, in an enormous retaliatory strike utilizing warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officers stated. (Sgt Lee Goddard, UK Ministry of Defence through AP)
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U.S. officers and the U.S. Navy didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.
The Related Press contributed to this report.