HANOI — Vietnam's Foreign Ministry condemned on Wednesday China's "brutal behavior" during a violent attack on Vietnamese fishermen in the disputed South China Sea (SCS).

The 10 fishermen were reportedly beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of fish and equipment on Sunday off the Paracel Islands — an archipelago in the resource-rich waterway claimed by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.

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