Three Filipino fishermen died after their fishing boat was rammed by an unidentified foreign commercial vessel while crossing the South China Sea, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred on Monday while the boat was transiting 85 nautical miles northwest of the disputed Scarborough Shoal, it said in a statement. Eleven crew members survived when the boat sank.
"Let us allow the PCG to do its job and investigate, and let us refrain from engaging in speculation in the meantime," he added, referring to the coast guard. The strategic shoal, named after a British cargo vessel that ran aground there in the 18th century, is in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone but was seized in 2012 by China, which has maintained a constant presence of coast guard ships and fishing trawlers there ever since.
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