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Deadly bubble sank South Korea's warship

26 May 2010

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BUBBLES have never been so deadly. The South Korean military ship, Cheonan, which sank in March killing 46 people, was hit by a “bubble jet” from a North Korean torpedo, a report by a team from South Korea, Australia, the US, the UK and Sweden has concluded.

The report, released last week, says that the extensive damage to the ship – it had been split in half – is characteristic of the shock wave and powerful water jet produced when a torpedo explodes. Fragments of a type…

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