Marshall Islands tanker behind collision leading to deaths of fishermen

Crew members of a Filipino fishing boat reporting to personnel at the Philippine Coast Guard sub-station in Infanta, after their boat was "rammed" by a foreign commercial vessel on Oct 2. - AFP

MANILA (Bloomberg): Three people are dead after a Philippine fishing boat collided with an oil tanker in what the nation’s coast guard described as an accident near a disputed South China Sea shoal.

Survivor accounts of the tanker fit the description of the Pacific Anna, a vessel registered under the Marshall Islands, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Wednesday (Oct 4).