Tuesday 11:15 a.m.
The Department of Defense made a correction to information about a sailor killed in Bahrain, Christmas Day.
They know says 19-year-old Joshua D. Seitz is from Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania.
It had been reported that Seitz was from Pensacola, Florida.
Tuesday a release on the Department of Defense website was updated to reflect the new information.
Monday
Nineteen-year-old Joshua D. Seitz, of Pensacola, Fla., died Christmas day according to the Department of Defense. Seitz was in Manama, Bahrain assigned to Naval Security Force, Naval Support Activity Bahrain. According to a Bahrain newspaper, the Gulf News Daily, Seitz died in an accident at Mina Salman port. The newspaper says he died from injuries sustained during a collision between the patrol boat he was on and a barge moored in the harbour at 11 p.m. local time. The Gulf Daily News also reports that two of Seitz's colleagues were injured as well but their injuries are said to be non-life threatening.
Click here to read the entire Gulf Daily News report.
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