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Hong Kong- More than 100 US sailors were left stranded in Hong Kong after their aircraft carrier left the city a day earlier than planned to avoid a typhoon, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
Nuclear-powered carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its support ships, which arrived in the southern Chinese city as part of a routine port call in the Asia-Pacific region last week, were due to depart on Monday.
But they left on Sunday at news that Typhoon Fengshen - which has left hundreds dead or missing across the Philippines - would pass through Hong Kong, navy spokesman Lieutenant Ron Flanders told the newspaper.
'These types of things do happen in cases of emergency,' he said. 'I am sure they're not tremendously depressed, but they are out there, we will get them back soon.'
The lieutenant said that the aircraft was more vulnerable to storm damage in port than at sea. He added that they would fly the sailors back via another location.
But he would not say where the aircraft was heading after Hong Kong. -- AFP
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