KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities were Thursday searching for a cargo ship that has been missing for a week and is feared hijacked in the piracy-prone South China Sea, a coast guard official said.

The owners of the Malaysian-registered vessel lost contact with it last Thursday while it traveled along the coast of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, said First Admiral Ismaili Bujang Pit, the state’s coast guard chief.

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