SYDNEY: Ten Chinese nationals were arrested in a suspected drug smuggling operation on a large commercial boat seized off Australia's southern coast, authorities said Friday.

The 50-meter (164-foot) vessel was spotted by an Australian Border Force aerial patrol and tracked as it moved down Australia's west coast, across the Great Australian Bight and towards the coastline of Tasmania, an island state south of the mainland.

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