All 12 crew members from two US military helicopters that crashed off Djibouti yesterday have been accounted for, the US military said today.
"Next of kin notifications are still ongoing; therefore, no further information regarding the status of, or condition of, the crew members will be released at this time," it said in a statement.
It had earlier said 10 crew members were still missing after the crash of two Marine Corps helicopters, while two were rescued yesterday and were in a stable condition. The military did not say if the aircraft collided.
The state is the hub of US counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa.
Search and rescue efforts have been curtailed, but recovery of equipment and wreckage will continue to determine the cause of the crash, said the statement from Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, the US operation set up in Djibouti in 2002.
The helicopters were on a two-hour training mission in northern Djibouti at the time of the crash.
Each of the CH53 marine transport helicopters was carrying six crew members.
Since December 2002, the former French colony has allowed US troops to use it as a base from which to hunt militants in Djibouti itself and in Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Yemen.