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55 Chinese Sailors Dead After Sub Caught in Ambush TRAP For US & UK Vessels
Fears 55 Chinese Sailors Dead After Submarine Caught in Trap For US and UK Vessels
The Deaths are Said to Be The Result of Poisoning Due to a System Fault on The Submarine as China was Reportedly Denied any International Help For The Underwater Vessel
BBC 4 OCT 2023
A Great Wall 236 submarine of the Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army
There are fears that 55 Chinese sailors have died after their nuclear submarine was apparently caught in a trap intended to ambush US and UK sub-surface vessels, it has been claimed.
The crew are feared to have died from poisoning due to a catastrophic failure of the submarine's oxygen system in August of this year, according to a secret UK report. The captain of the Chinese PLA Navy submarine '093-417' is believed to be among the victims along with 21 other officers on the vessel in the Yellow Sea.
China has officially denied that the incident took place and Beijing reportedly also refused to request international aide for its trapped submarine, which entered service within the last 15 years.
China has officially denied that the sinking took place
The UK report into the fatal mission notes: "Intelligence reports that on 21st of August there was an onboard accident whilst carrying out a mission in the Yellow Sea.
"Incident happened at 08.12 local resulting in the death of 55 crew members: 22 officers, 7 officer cadets, 9 petty officers, 17 sailors. Dead include the captain Colonel Xue Yong-Peng. Our understanding is death caused by hypoxia due to a system fault on the submarine.
"The submarine hit a chain and anchor obstacle used by the Chinese Navy to trap US and allied submarines. This resulted in systems failures that took six hours to repair and surface the vessel. The onboard oxygen system poisoned the crew after a catastrophic failure."
Chinese President Xi Jinping asked the country's submarine force to become 'elite' earlier this year
The Type 093s are one of Chinas' more modern submarines, at 351ft-long and armed with torpedoes, and are known for emitting lower noise levels. It is believed that the sinking happened in waters off China's Shandong Province, reports MailOnline.
A British submariner told the Mail: "It is plausible that this occurred and I doubt the Chinese would have asked for international support for obvious reasons."
They went on to say that the submarine's air purifiers and air treatment systems could have 'failed' if the underwater vessel was trapped on the net system and its batteries were running flat, the latter of which was described as a 'plausible' scenario.
The submariner added: "Which would have reverted to secondary systems and subsequently and plausibly failed to maintain the air. Which led to asphyxia or poisoning." They explained how the British have certain kit that absorbs carbon dioxide and creates oxygen in situations like this - and that other nations do not have this type of technology available to them.
No independent confirmation of the suspected loss of the Chinese submarine is currently publicly available. While Beijing has since dismissed open source speculation over the incident as 'completely false' and Taiwan has also denied reports about it.
The Royal Navy declined to comment on the details inside the highly classified report, which is based on defence intelligence
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