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Nine people have been injured after a US Coast Guard vessel collided with a Navy boat off Alaska’s Kodiak Island.

The accident occurred on Wednesday evening in Women’s Bay near Kodiak’s Coast Guard base, said Lt. Comm. Scott McCann, a Coast Guard Alaska District spokesman in Juneau.

A Coast Guard 38-foot special purpose training boat had just completed a helicopter hoist training session with aircraft from the agency’s air base, McCann said. 

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A Coast Guard 38-foot special purpose training boat (file picture) has collided with a US navy boat

Training sessions are aimed at maintaining pilot proficiency for search and rescue missions.

‘They had just completed training with the air station and were headed back home,’ McCann said.

The boat collided with a Navy vessel of about the same size, McCann said. The vessels were not training together.