China to hand back US drone within 24 hours

December 20, 2016 00:29

The Chinese military is expected to return a seized underwater probe to the US Navy in the South China Sea on tomorrow, a US defense official said. The small craft, taken around 90 kilometres northwest from Subic Bay in the Philippines last week, will be handed over to the crew of a US warship in the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal.

"A US destroyer will be there," the official said.

The handover was slated to occur sometime on December 20, though details of how it would happen were still being worked out.

The Pentagon says the marine probe is a commercial craft that gathers unclassified data that can be used to help submarines navigate and determine sonar ranges in murky waters.

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