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Keep off Ayungin shoal, China warned

(UPDATE) DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has warned that not even China can stop Philippine troops from conducting resupply missions to the Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, after Chinese Coast Guard allegedly blocked recently the entrance to the underwater sandbank in the South China Sea or SCS (West Philippine Sea).

A group of Filipino soldiers is stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre, a World War 2 naval ship, that run aground on the shoal.

This shows the BRP Sierra Madre of the Philippine Navy anchored near Ayungin Shoal with Filipino soldiers onboard to secure perimeter in the Spratly Islands in the West Philippine Sea on May 11, 2015. PHOTO BY RITCHIE B. TONGO/POOL PHOTO VIA AP