The fishermen were hit by a still unidentified foreign commercial vessel.
Tensions have flared up after the Philippines removed a ball-buoy barrier installed by China’s coastguard.
The incident occurred on Monday while the boat was transiting waters 157km northwest of the disputed Scarborough Shoal, it said in a statement. Eleven crew members survived after the boat sank. The strategic shoal, named after a British cargo vessel that ran aground on the atoll in the 18th century, was seized in 2012 by China, which has maintained a constant presence of coastguard and fishing trawlers there ever since.
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