KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s navy has fought off a pirate attack on a tanker off its east coast in the South China Sea, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on Sunday.

The Malaysian force was assisted by the Indonesian and Singaporean navies in fending off the attack late on Saturday, said Noel Choong, head of the IMB’s Kuala Lumpur-based Piracy Reporting Center.

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