MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – A shooting in the popular South Carolina tourist town of Myrtle Beach left 11 people wounded, and police fatally shot one person, authorities said.
Myrtle Beach officers responded to a disturbance involving multiple individuals Saturday night in which someone began firing a weapon. In a statement, the department said that “based on the immediate threat,” an officer then shot one person, who died from their injuries.
The person’s name wasn’t immediately released, and it wasn’t clear whether they were a suspect. A telephone message left with Myrtle Beach police was referred to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which didn’t immediately return an email Sunday.
The department said 11 people who sustained injuries were receiving medical treatment.
DUBAI – The death toll from a powerful explosion at Iran’s biggest port of Bandar Abbas has risen to at least 40, with more than 1,200 people injured, state media reported on Sunday, as firefighters worked to fully extinguish the fire.
Saturday’s blast took place in the Shahid Rajaee section of the port, Iran’s biggest container hub, shattering windows for several kilometres around, tearing metal strips off shipping containers and badly damaging goods inside, state media said.
Police officers work at the scene in Vancouver, Canada April 27, 2025. REUTERS
Eleven people have been confirmed dead and multiple others wounded after a man drove into a crowd at at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver, police said.
Interim Vancouver Police Chief Police chief Steve Rai said on Sunday that the suspect had a “significant history” of interaction with police and mental health care professionals. Rai declined to discuss any motive.
Police said the incident happened shortly after 8pm on Saturday (03:00 GMT Sunday) in the city’s Sunset on Fraser neighbourhood as it celebrated the Lapu Lapu Festival, adding that the driver, a 30-year-old man, was taken into custody.
“At this time, we are confident that this incident was not an act of terrorism,” police said.
Earlier, Rai told a news conference that man was arrested after initially being apprehended by bystanders.
Video circulating on social media shows a young man in a black hoodie with his back against a chain link fence, alongside a security guard and surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him.
“I’m sorry,” the man says, holding his hand to his head.
Rai declined to comment on the video but said the person in custody was a “lone male” who was “known to police in certain circumstances”.
Vancouver had more than 38,600 residents of Filipino heritage in 2021, representing 5.9 percent of the city’s total population, according to Statistics Canada, the agency that conducts the national census.
The Lapu Lapu Festival commemorates Datu Lapu-Lapu, an Indigenous chieftain who stood up to Spanish explorers who came to the Philippines in the 16th century.
Vancouver’s Mayor Ken Sim said, “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today’s Lapu Lapu Day event.”
“Our thoughts are with all those affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino community during this incredibly difficult time,” Sim wrote.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was “devastated to hear about the horrific events” at the Lapu Lapu festival.
“I offer my deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured, to the Filipino Canadian community, and to everyone in Vancouver. We are all mourning with you,” he said, adding that the federal government was closely monitoring developments as the investigation continues.
Canada is set to hold its federal election on Monday.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Sunday he was “shattered to hear about the terrible incident”.
“The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver is working with Canadian authorities to ensure that the incident will be thoroughly investigated, and that the victims and their families are supported and consoled”, he added.
MANILA – Seven suspected rebels were killed in a clash with soldiers in central Philippines on Sunday, a military spokesperson said.
Army Colonel Erwin Rommel Lamzon said the clash occurred on Sunday morning in Negros Occidental province, resulting in the killing of four female and three male New People’s Army (NPA) rebels.
Lamzon initially said five rebels died in the fighting. The official later reported the recovery of two more NPA bodies, bringing the death toll to seven.
Lamzon said no soldier was killed or wounded in the gunfight.
NPA rebels have been fighting against government troops since 1969.
Military data showed that the NPA’s personnel strength has declined since its peak of around 25,000 armed members in the 1980s.
Despite its dwindling number of fighters, the NPA continues to launch small-scale attacks in the countryside.
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani security forces overnight killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from Afghanistan, the military said Sunday, marking one of the deadliest such killings in recent years.
In a statement, the military said intelligence reports indicated the killed militants were “Khwarij” — a phrase the government uses for the Pakistani Taliban.
Without directly blaming anyone, the military said the slain insurgents had been sent by their “foreign masters” to carry out high-profile terrorist attacks inside Pakistan.
The insurgents were spotted and killed near the former stronghold of Pakistan Taliban near North Waziristan, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the Afghan border.
The military said the infiltration attempt came “at a time when India is leveling baseless accusations against Pakistan” following a recent deadly assault on tourists in India-controlled Kashmir.
Pakistan in recent months has witnessed a surge in violence, mostly blamed on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
It is a separate group but allied with the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021.
Many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuary in Afghanistan since then.
Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tatar on Sunday told the foreign media that New Delhi blamed Islamabad for the tourist attack to distract Pakistan’s security forces from their focus on the war on its western borders.
MOSCOW – A man suspected of killing a Russian general with a car bomb pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and said he was paid by the Ukrainian Security Service, Russian authorities said Sunday.
The Investigative Committee said Ignat Kuzin admitted he was paid to kill Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff of the Russian armed forces.
Moskalik was killed Friday by a bomb in his car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow.
Ukrainian authorities did not comment on the attack, the second in four months targeting a top Russian military officer that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine amid the conflict between the neighboring countries.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed on Dec. 17, 2024, when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked outside his apartment building exploded as he left for his office. Ukraine’s security agency acknowledged it was behind the attack.
Kirillov was the chief of Russia’s Radiation, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, the special troops tasked with protecting the military from the enemy’s use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and ensuring operations in a contaminated environment. Kirillov’s assistant also died in the attack.
Kirillov was under sanctions from several countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, for his actions in the fighting in Ukraine.
TEHRAN – The death toll from a large explosion at a port in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province on Saturday has risen to 28, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
The cause of the incident remained undetermined, the report said.
IRNA stated that the number of individuals injured in the blast and subsequent fire had reached 800, with six people still missing.
Footage from closed-circuit cameras at the scene showed a limited fire starting near several containers in an area of the port at 12:05 p.m. local time (0835 GMT), which then expanded and caused the significant explosion approximately 90 seconds later, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Hormozgan’s Governor Mohammad Ashouri Taziani as saying on Sunday.
He also announced three days of public mourning in the province following the deadly blast.
Hossein Zafari, spokesperson for the National Disaster Management Organization, told the semi-official Fars news agency on Saturday that chemical materials in a container at the port may have triggered the explosion.
However, Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani cautioned on the same day against any “hasty speculations” regarding the cause of the incident before relevant authorities complete their investigations.
She added that what had been confirmed so far was the presence of containers, possibly containing chemical materials, in a corner of the port.
Dismissing foreign media rumors about the presence of military shipments at the port, Iran’s Defense Ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik stated that based on investigations and available evidence, there were no imported or exported shipments related to fuel or military use in the area where the blast occurred.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday dispatched Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni to the province to ensure necessary coordination and address the condition of the injured.
On Sunday, Pezeshkian instructed the interior minister to implement immediate measures to ensure medical care delivery to all injured individuals and control the critical circumstances, according to a statement published on his office’s website.
IRNA reported that while the fire had been 80 percent contained at the port by Sunday morning, it had reignited and spread to other nearby containers, with efforts underway to extinguish it.
The port’s wharfs, however, had resumed operations and cargo handling, the report added.
ALGIERS – Four people were killed and 13 others injured after a landslide struck Algeria’s northwestern Oran province late on Saturday, Civil Protection authorities said on Sunday.
The landslide hit the locality of Ard Chebatt, about 400 km from the capital Algiers, destroying five homes, authorities said.
The victims included two women aged 45 and 18, and two children, a 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, who died after being transported to the hospital by local residents.
Thirteen others, aged between 12 and 75, sustained injuries of varying severity. Seven were evacuated by Civil Protection teams, while others were transported by private means. All were admitted to the hospital for treatment.
The landslide occurred in an area known for precarious housing vulnerable to soil instability, authorities said.
Local officials and rescue teams remain on site to secure the area and prevent further incidents. An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the landslide.
ROME – At least two people were killed and three others injured on Saturday evening in a shooting in Palermo, the capital of Italy’s Sicily, Italy’s ANSA news agency reported.
The report said the incident was triggered by a dispute between two groups of young people in a pizzeria near the busy Duomo di Monreale square. The confrontation then escalated into a shooting.
The two deceased were aged 25 and 23, and all the injured sustained serious wounds. Further investigation is ongoing.
OTTAWA – Nine people have been confirmed dead after a driver drove into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday evening, local police said on Sunday.
Vancouver police examine a black car suspected to be involved at a scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, April 26, 2025. AP
VANCOUVER – The driver of a car struck revelers at a street festival in Canada, killing and injuring an unknown number of people, police said.
The vehicle entered the street where people were attending a Filipino community festival just after 8 p.m. Friday, the Vancouver Police Department said in a social media post.
“A number of people have been killed and multiple others are injured after a driver drove into a crowd,” police said.
The exact number of dead or injured was not immediately available.
The driver was taken into custody, police said.
The Lapu Lapu Day festival was being held in a South Vancouver neighbourhood. Video posted on social media showed victims and debris strewn across a long stretch of road, with at least seven people lying immobile on the ground.
A black SUV with a crumpled front section could be seen in still photos from the scene.
French gendarmes block the access to a road at La Grand-Combe, southern France, on April 25, 2025, after a muslim worshipper was stabbed to death at the local mosque. (AFP)
MARSEILLE – French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Saturday denounced the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque as police hunted the killer, who filmed his victim as he lay dying.
The attacker stabbed the worshipper dozens of times then filmed him with a mobile phone while shouting insults at Islam in Friday’s attack in the village of La Grand-Combe in the Gard region of southern France.
“A worshipper was murdered yesterday,” wrote Bayrou in a message posted on X. “The Islamophobic atrocity was displayed in a video,” he added.
“We stand with the victim’s loved ones, with the believers who are so shocked. State resources are mobilized to ensure the killer is apprehended and punished,” wrote Bayrou.
Earlier Saturday, investigators said they were treating the killing as a possible Islamophobic crime.
The suspect was still at large on Saturday, regional prosecutor Abdelkrim Grini told AFP.
The footage taken by the killer showed him insulting “Allah,” the Arabic term for God, just after he carried out the attack.
The alleged perpetrator sent the video he had filmed with his phone, showing the victim writhing in agony, to another person, who then shared it on a social media platform before deleting it.
The killing itself was not shown on the images posted on social media but was filmed by security cameras inside the mosque. In his own footage the killer notices these cameras and is heard saying: “I am going to be arrested — that’s for sure.”
According to another source, who also asked not to be named, the suspected perpetrator, while not apprehended, has been identified as a French citizen of Bosnian origin who is not a Muslim.
“The individual is being actively sought. This is a matter that is being taken very seriously,” said the prosecutor Grini.
“All possibilities were being considered, including that of an act with an Islamophobic dimension,” he added.
He confirmed that the French anti-terror prosecutors’ office was considering whether to take over the case.
The victim and the attacker were alone inside the mosque at the time of the incident.
After initially praying alongside the man, the attacker then stabbed the victim up to 50 times before fleeing the scene.
The body of the victim was only discovered later in the morning when other worshippers arrived at the mosque for Friday prayers.
According to prosecutor Grini, the victim, between 23 and 24 years old, was a regular worshipper at the mosque. The killer had never been seen there before.
According to several people AFP spoke to at the scene on Friday, the victim was a young man who arrived from Mali a few years ago and was “very well-known” in the village, where he was highly regarded.
A former mining center about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the town of Ales, La Grand-Combe suffers one of the highest unemployment rates in France after the end of coal mining.
On Friday, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau described the murder as “appalling.”
He expressed his “support for the victim’s family and solidarity with the Muslim community affected by this barbaric violence in their place of worship on the day of prayer.”
JERUSALEM – Two Israeli soldiers were killed on Friday in the northern Gaza Strip, according to separate statements issued by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police on Saturday evening.
The two are Ido Voloch, 21, an armored corps officer and platoon commander, and Neta Yitzhak Kahana, 19, an undercover officer in the Border Police.
Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News reported that a Border Police ambush force encountered a squad of militants in the Shajaiyah neighborhood, eastern Gaza City, and Kahana was killed in the ensuing battle.
According to the report, about 15 minutes later, during the rescue operations, militants fired an RPG rocket at the rescue force, resulting in an Israeli soldier being moderately wounded.
About an hour later, militants fired an RPG at an Israeli tank in Shajaiyah, during which Voloch was killed and another soldier was moderately wounded.
The channel added that in the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, four Israeli armored fighters were injured, one seriously and three moderately, by explosive devices.
SANAA – Three Russian sailors were injured when U.S. forces conducted airstrikes on a vessel at Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port in the country’s province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea, the Houthi group announced on Saturday.
In a statement posted on the social media platform X, Jamal Amer, foreign minister of the unrecognized Houthi government in Sanaa, condemned the “U.S. aggression” against a ship attempting to unload oil cargo at the port.
“The U.S. airstrikes yesterday targeted a ship anchored in Ras Isa port to prevent it from unloading an oil shipment, resulting in the injury of three Russian sailors,” Amer said. “Our Coast Guard personnel intervened immediately to rescue them and transport them for medical treatment.”
Amer said the incident undermined U.S. claims about targeting military installations and revealed the falsehood behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertions that U.S. airstrikes “are aimed at Sanaa’s military capabilities.”
Meanwhile, Houthi-controlled health authorities said in a statement that at least eight people were wounded on Saturday night when a U.S. airstrike hit a house in a residential neighborhood in Sanaa.
Two children were among the injured from the airstrike at the house in the Al-Rawda neighborhood in northern Sanaa, the authorities said.
Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported more than 20 U.S. airstrikes on other locations in Sanaa, and the provinces of Saada, Marib, Hodeidah, as well as Al-Jawf throughout Saturday.
The U.S. airstrikes come as the Houthis claimed responsibility early on Saturday for attacking three targets in Israel, using a ballistic missile and two drones.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a post on X earlier in the day that a projectile fired from Yemen triggered sirens in southern Israel, but didn’t comment on the alleged drone attacks.
Also on Saturday, the Houthis claimed they launched a fresh drone attack against the USS Harry S. Truman in the northern Red Sea.
The Houthis said the attack against the aircraft carrier was in response to the ongoing U.S. airstrikes on the group’s positions. The U.S. military has yet to comment on the attack.
The United States has intensified airstrikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen since mid-March.
In response, the Houthi group launched multiple attacks on the U.S. aircraft carriers and other U.S. warships in the Red Sea.
DUBAI – A huge blast probably caused by the explosion of chemical materials killed at least 14 people and injured more than 700 on Saturday at Iran’s biggest port, Bandar Abbas, Iranian state media reported.
The explosion, which hit the Shahid Rajaee section of the port, occurred as Iran began a third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman, but there was no indication of a link between the two events.
Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran’s crisis management organisation, appeared to blame the explosion on poor storage of chemicals in containers at Shahid Rajaee.
“The cause of the explosion was the chemicals inside the containers,” he told Iran’s ILNA news agency.
In this photo provided by Iranian Students’ News Agency, ISNA, a helicopter drops water on the fire after a massive explosion rocked a port near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, April 26, 2025. AP
MUSCAT, Oman – A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing five people and injuring more than 700 others.
Mehrdad Hasanzadeh, a provincial disaster management official, gave the updated casualty figure in an interview on state television. The previous toll was four dead and more than 500 others injured.
The blast at the Shahid Rajaei port happened as Iran and the United States met Saturday in Oman for the third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Gudder village, Kulgam district, Kashmir April 26, 2025. REUTERS
SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD – Pakistan called on Saturday for a “neutral” investigation into the killings of mostly Indian tourists in Kashmir that New Delhi has blamed on Islamabad, saying it was willing to cooperate and favoured peace.
India has identified two of the three suspected militants as Pakistani, though Islamabad has denied any role in the attack on Tuesday that killed 25 Indian and one Nepali tourists.
“Pakistan is fully prepared to cooperate with any neutral investigators to ensure that the truth is uncovered and justice is served,” said Pakistan’s interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi.
“Pakistan remains committed to peace, stability and the following of international norms but will not compromise on its sovereignty,” he told a press conference.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to pursue the attackers to “the ends of the earth” and said that those who planned and carried it out “will be punished beyond their imagination”. Calls have also grown from Indian politicians and others for military retaliation against Pakistan.
After the attack, India and Pakistan unleashed a raft of measures against each other, with Pakistan closing its airspace to Indian airlines, and India suspending the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty that regulates water-sharing from the Indus River and its tributaries.
The two sides, who both fully claim Kashmir while partly ruling it, have also exchanged fire across their de facto border after four years of relative calm.
The Indian Army said it had responded to “unprovoked” small arms fire from multiple Pakistan Army posts that started around midnight on Friday along the 740-km (460-mile) de facto border separating the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir. It reported no casualties.
The Pakistani military did not respond to a request for comment.
DEMOLISHING HOUSES
Indian security forces have continued their hunt for the suspects and have demolished the Kashmir houses of at least five suspected militants, including one they believe took part in the latest attack.
Pieces of broken glass littered the site of one such house in Murram village in Pulwama district on Saturday. Locals said they had not seen Ehsan Ahmed Sheikh, a suspected militant whose house got destroyed, in the past three years.
His family declined to speak with reporters.
“Nobody knows where he is,” said neighbour Sameer Ahmed. “Ehsan’s family have lost their home. They will suffer for this, not him.”
The rising tensions have had business implications too.
Indian airlines such as Air India and IndiGo are bracing for higher fuel costs and longer journey times as they reroute international flights.
The Indian government has asked airlines to actively communicate to passengers about re-routing and delays, while ensuring enough stocks of food, water and medical kits for extended journeys.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – At least 49 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours, according to health officials, as Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire.
An airstrike in a neighborhood in western Gaza City early Saturday morning, flattened a three-story house, killing 10 people, according to a cameraman cooperating with The Associated Press. The number was confirmed by Gaza’s Health Ministry, along with three more people who were killed in the Shati refugee camp along the city’s shoreline.
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the strikes.
The attacks come as Hamas said on Saturday that it sent a high-level delegation to Cairo to try and get the stalled ceasefire back on track.
Israel ended a ceasefire with Hamas last month and has vowed to continue the war until all the hostages are returned and Hamas is destroyed, or disarmed and sent into exile. It says it will hold parts of Gaza indefinitely and implement President Donald Trump’s proposal for the resettlement of the population in other countries, which has been widely rejected internationally.
Hamas has said it will only release the dozens of hostages it holds in return for Palestinian prisoners, a complete Israeli withdrawal and a lasting ceasefire, as called for in the now-defunct agreement reached in January.
Hamas said Saturday that the delegation will discuss with Egyptian officials the group’s vision to end the war, which includes the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and reconstruction.
Earlier this week, other Hamas officials arrived in Cairo to discuss a proposal that would include a five-to-seven year truce and the release of all remaining hostages, officials said.
Egypt and Qatar are still developing the proposal, which would include the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of Palestinian prisoners, according to an Egyptian official and a Hamas official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
Meanwhile, Israel has continued its nearly two-month blockade on Gaza even as aid groups warn that supplies are dwindling.
On Friday, the World Food Program said its food stocks in Gaza had run out, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory. The WFP said in a statement that it delivered the last of its stocks to charity kitchens that it supports around Gaza. It said those kitchens are expected to run out of food in the coming days.
About 80% of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million relies primarily on charity kitchens for food, because other sources have shut down under Israel’s blockade, according to the U.N. The WFP has been supporting 47 kitchens that distribute 644,000 hot meals a day, WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa told The Associated Press.
Smoke from the explosion is seen at the Shahid Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, Iran, April 26, 2025. REUTERS
DUBAI – A huge blast on Saturday likely caused by the explosion of chemical materials stored at Iran’s biggest port, Bandar Abbas, killed at least four people and injured more than 500, Iranian state media reported.
The explosion, which hit the Shahid Rajaee section of the port, occurred as Iran began a third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman, but there was no immediate indication of a link between the two events.
Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran’s crisis management organisation, appeared to blame the explosion on poor storage of chemicals in containers at Shahid Rajaee.
“The cause of the explosion was the chemicals inside the containers,” he told Iran’s ILNA news agency.
“Previously, the Director General of Crisis Management had given warnings to this port during their visits and had pointed out the possibility of danger,” Zafari said.
An Iranian government spokesperson, however, said that although chemicals had likely caused the blast, it was not yet possible to determine the exact reason.
Iran’s official news channels aired footage of a vast black and orange cloud of smoke billowing up above the port in the aftermath of the blast, and an office building with its doors blown off and papers and debris strewn around.
Bandar Abbas is Iran’s largest port and handles most of its containers in transit.
The blast shattered windows within a radius of several kilometres and was heard in Qeshm, an island 26 kilometres (16 miles) south of the port, Iranian media said.
The semi-official Tasnim news agency posted footage of injured men lying on the road being tended to amid scenes of confusion.
State TV earlier reported that poor handling of flammable materials was a “contributing factor” to the explosion. A local crisis management official told state TV that the blast took place after several containers stored at the port exploded.
As relief workers tried to put out fires, the port’s customs officials said trucks were being evacuated from the area and that the container yard where the explosion occurred likely contained “dangerous goods and chemicals.” Activities at the port were halted after the blast, officials said.
A view of a “new multipurpose destroyer,” as per state media KCNA’s reports, in Nampo, North Korea, in this handout picture released on April 26, 2025, by the Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via REUTERS
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ceremony for the launch of a “new multipurpose destroyer,” state media KCNA reported on Saturday.
The 5,000-tonne warship was equipped with the “most powerful weapons” and built “within 400-odd days perfectly with our own strength and technology,” Jo Chun Ryong, a secretary in the ruling Workers’ Party, was quoted as saying.
Kim, in a speech from the launch reported by KCNA, said the warship would be handed over to the navy and go into service early next year.
The launch took place on Friday at the military shipbuilding dockyard of Nampho, and marked a new era of the “great Kim Jong Un-style fleet building,” KCNA said quoting Vice-Admiral Pak Kwang Sop. The ship was graded as the “Choe Hyon-class” named after anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter Choe Hyon, the report added.
