Three killed as volcano erupts
(CNN) — NATO ships rescued two survivors and spotted three bodies off the coast of a small Red Sea island Monday morning, following a spectacular volcanic eruption the night before, a NATO commander said.
he Yemeni Coast Guard rescued 21 of the 29 Yemeni military personnel who were on the island when the volcano erupted, but they requested help from a nearby six-ship NATO task force en route to the Suez Canal, according to Ken Allan of the Canadian Navy’s HMCS Toronto.
The Canadian ship located the first survivor about five miles off the coast of the volcanic island, Allan told CNN’s American Morning.
“We managed to pluck him out of the water, after he’d been in there for quite a long time and moments later, my ship, the HMCS Toronto, picked up another survivor, currently down in sick bay receiving medical care from our doctor aboard,” Allan said.
Allan said the ships, still in the area searching Monday afternoon, also recovered two men who did not survive.
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