TAIPEI: A Chinese fishing boat with nine crew aboard was escorted to Taiwan on Sunday after an hours-long sea chase involving five coastguard vessels and a naval frigate, officials said.

The crew of the Zhe Ling Yu 69088, a 260-ton vessel from China’s eastern province of Zhejiang, were questioned by coastguards immediately after the boat arrived at Keelung harbor in northern Taiwan.

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