Sailors found by Australian and US forces after SOS in sand on Micronesia island

Three missing sailors have been found on a tiny island in the western Pacific after they wrote an outsized SOS in the sand that was spotted from the air, according to a statement by Australia’s Defence Ministry.

The men were found on Sunday after they had been missing for three days and media reports say they are in good health.

Their call for help, written on the beach of Pikelot Island, 190 kilometres west of where they had set out, was seen by Australian and US aircraft, the statement said.

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