Breaking News: 2 top officers from a U.S. ship involved in a deadly June collision will be relieved of duty. A Navy report details the harrowing crash.

The Navy plans to relieve the two top officers and the senior enlisted sailor of a destroyer that collided with a freighter off the coast of Japan in June, killing seven sailors in one of the sea service’s deadliest accidents in years.

About a dozen sailors over all face career-killing administrative actions as a result of the accident, an admiral said at a briefing at the Pentagon.

A preliminary report into the accident released by the Navy on Thursday describes in harrowing detail the immediate aftermath of the collision and the rescue efforts aboard the Fitzgerald. The ship’s routine cruise through familiar, if crowded seas, ended in the most deadly Navy accident in years.

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