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It dispatched aircraft to conduct searches and the Chinese Coast Guard sent two vessels for rescue efforts.<br \/>One person was receiving emergency medical treatment, it said, adding that China&#8217;s maritime authorities were organising additional rescue forces to head to the area.<br \/>The Philippine Coast Guard said it deployed two vessels and two aircraft to rescue the Philippine crew from a Singaporean-flagged cargo vessel loaded with iron ore that was en route to southern Chinese city of Yangjiang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and the Philippines said on Friday they launched rescue operations after receiving reports of a distressed cargo ship near the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea which was carrying 21 Philippine crew members.The Chinese military said two crew had died and 17 had been rescued, after a report around 1:30 a.m. on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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