(VOVworld) – Vietnam and the Philippines have coordinated efforts to rescue 9 Filipinos, 5 men and 4 women including a child, near Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago in Khanh Hoa province.

43-year-old Donato RComdate, one of those rescued by Vietnamese fishermen

Earlier, a Vietnamese vessel rescued them from a small boat with a broken engine 120 nautical miles from Vietnam’s Sinh Ton Dong island. Informed by the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center, a Philippine ship dispatched by the Philippines Search and Rescue Center received the survivors on May 9.