The Chinese Navy’s newest nuclear submarine sank at the dock in the middle of the year, Reuters reports, citing a Pentagon source.
According to the agency’s interlocutor, the incident occurred in May-June. According to him, the reasons for the incident and whether there was nuclear fuel on board the submarine are unknown.
Earlier on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a series of Planet Labs satellite images taken in June showing cranes at a shipyard in Wuhan where the sunken submarine was said to be moored.
An official at the Chinese Embassy in the United States told the agency that they had no information about the possible incident.
