The Chinese Coast Guard also allegedly obstructed a medical evacuation of ailing soldiers.
A China Coast Guard vessel sailing near the Philippine military-chartered Unaizah May 4 during its supply mission to Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea on March 5.
The Inquirer source made the allegations hours after Chinese state media claimed that personnel on the Sierra Madre “pointed guns” at the CCG on the same day, May 19.An accompanying 29-second video appeared to show a masked man momentarily holding up a blurred black object that resembled a rifle. One of the CCG ships directly blasted its water cannon at the outboard motor towards one of the Philippine rubber boats, he added.
China uses the so-called nine-dash line that takes in about 90 per cent of the South China Sea to assert its claim to sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, a submerged reef coveted for its bountiful fish stocks, and the Second Thomas Shoal, home to a small contingent of Filipino sailors living aboard a rusty warship that Manila intentionally grounded in 1999 to further its territorial claims.
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