Two United States Navy sailors have been purported missing at sea while conducting operations off the coast of Somalia on Thursday evening, according to a statement by the U.S. military in a statement on Friday.
The statement also revealed that a search and rescue operation was ongoing to locate them.
“The sailors had been forward-deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet –C5F area of operations supporting a wide variety of missions,” the U.S. Central Command said.
The statement had also stated that further information would not be made available until the personnel recovery operation was complete to avoid sabotage.
