Four sailors assigned to the same warship reportedly killed themselves, with three of the crew members dying in the same week.

The first sailor, Robert John Bartulewicz III, died on 16 July. A second crew member, James Harold Shelton, died on 14 September. Mr Shelton was a chief electronics technician.

Two more men, Vincent Michael Forline and Ethan Thomas Lee Stuart, killed themselves on 19 September. Mr Forline was an aviation ordnanceman and Mr Stuart was an airman.

The four men were assigned to the aircraft carrier George HW Bush. All the deaths have been ruled suicides, according to The Navy Times.

Federal agents and local police officers in Virginia, where the carrier is docked, are investigating the spate of suicides.

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