Fire breaks out on US naval ship off Japan’s Okinawa

Japan Coast Guard, the US maritime ship New Orleans, Southern Japan’s Okinawa State of Okinawa, but there is no injury report.

An official from the Japanese Ministry of Defense said that the country’s defense forces have made an effort to extinguish fire, but there is no more details.

JCG added that one of the ships near the US ship is preparing to participate in the effort to control the fire and that there was no oil leakage in nearby waters.