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The cause of the sinking remains a mystery.
By EDNA TARIGAN and FADLAN SYAM
BANYUWANGI, Indonesia (AP) Indonesia’s navy on Saturday declared its missing submarine had sunk and cracked open, killing 53 crew members aboard, after finding items from the vessel over the past two days.
Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said the presence of an oil slick as well as debris near the site where the submarine’s last dive on Wednesday off the island of Bali were clear proof the KRI Nanggala 402 sank. Indonesia earlier considered the vessel to be only missing.
Navy Chief Yudo Margono told a press conference in Bali, “If it’s an explosion, it will be in pieces. The cracks happened gradually in some parts when it went down from 300 meters to 400 meters to 500 meters . If there was an explosion, it would be heard by the sonar.”
three months. those powers will give the government the right to carry out searches without a warrant and the right to place people under house arrest. shepard, back to you. steve har, arigan, thank you. he s worked as part of the royal family s personal security detail. steve, good afternoon. thank you. you re welcome, shep. where are we in this search, in your estimation? well, i think it s imperative that we find this guy that s on the loose. he s obviously a linchpin to a lot of valuable information. i mean, the mere fact that he hired vehicles, he hired hotel rooms, they used the hotel rooms as logistics and as a base and left behind a lot of incriminating evidence. this is a last ditch effort of somebody who really had nothing to lose and i fully expect he didn t expect to make it through today. he s been involved, according to multiple reports, for the