The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Tuesday night said it had sent its biggest ship — the 97-meter BRP Teresa Magbanua — to monitor Chinese vessels near the coast of Zambales province in the country’s north. In a statement, the PCG said Teresa Magbanua replaced the 44-meter vessel BRP Cabra, which arrived at Subic Port on Tuesday morning to unload the body of a fisherman recovered on Monday. “The vessel’s departure from an area where the Chinese Coast Guard has been illegally present prompted Commandant Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan to deploy the PCG’s 97-meter vessel, BRP Teresa Magbanua,” it said.

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