A PHILIPPINE Coast Guard (PCG) vessel that spent five months anchored at the disputed Escoda Shoal in the South China Sea has left the area, Philippine officials said Sunday.

The BRP Teresa Magbanua had been anchored inside the shoal since April to assert Manila's claims to the area and prevent China from seizing it.

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