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Indonesia s Navy searching for missing submarine with 53 onboard By: CNN By Masrur Jamaluddin and Reuters     (CNN) Indonesia s Navy is searching for a missing submarine with 53 people on board that went missing during a  military exercise on Wednesday, Indonesian authorities say. In a statement published Wednesday night, the Indonesian Ministry of Defense said the KRI Nanggala-402, a German-made submarine, lost contact during a torpedo drill in the Bali Strait a stretch of water between the islands of Java and Bali that connects to the Indian Ocean and Bali Sea. The submarine asked for permission to dive, or submerge, at 3 a.m. local time (3 p.m. ET) before losing contact, it said. The statement added that an oil spill was seen in aerial surveillance near the dive point, around 7 a.m. local time.

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