Senior Naval Officers Punished for Submarine Accident

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Senior Naval Officers Punished for Submarine Accident

Two senior Chinese naval officers have been demoted after an investigation showed operational errors were to blame for the deaths of 70 sailors on a navy submarine on May 2.

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Two senior Chinese naval officers have been demoted after an investigation showed operational errors were to blame for the deaths of 70 sailors on a navy submarine on May 2.

The move followed the release Friday of the results of an investigation into the accident on Submarine No. 361 of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Ding Yiping, commander of the North China Sea (Beihai) Fleet, and Chen Xianfeng, political commissar of the Beihai Fleet, were demoted after the Central Military Commission found them to be responsible for the accident, caused by improper direction of the vessel's operations.

Eight other officers responsible for the accident were either dismissed or demoted.

Seventy sailors on board the submarine died in the accident in the area east of the Neichangshan Islands off Shandong Province, east China.

Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent messages of condolence to relatives of the dead officers and seamen after the accident.

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