A fire started aboard the American landing ship Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) at the San Diego Naval Base.
This was reported by US military officials.
21 people were injured in the fire. Among them, 17 military personnel and 4 civilians. All of them were taken to hospitals with “life-threatening injuries.”
The representative of the US Navy surface forces of the US Pacific Fleet, Mark Rainey, said that the ship was undergoing scheduled maintenance when a fire broke out. On board were about 160 sailors and officers, although usually there were about a thousand people on board.