The Chinese embassy released a statement on Facebook Friday night about the result of its preliminary investigation on the "so-called collision of fishing boats between Chinese and the Philippines."
"At 2400 hours on June 9, 2019, 'Yuemaobinyu 42212', a Chinese fishing boat from Guangdong Province, China, engaged in a light purse seine operation, was berthed at the vicinity of Liyue Tan (Reed Bank) of the Nansha Qundao. It was suddenly besieged by 7 or 8 Filipino boats, and its steel cable on the lighting grid of larboard bumped into the Filipino pilothouse. The Filipino fishing boat tilted and its stern foundered," the embassy said in a statement.
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