Look: China Coast Guard fires water cannon, sideswipes BFAR vessel near Sandy Cays | ANC

On The Scene: The Philippine Fisheries Bureau accused the China Coast Guard on Thursday of firing water cannon and sideswiping a Filipino government vessel while it collected sand for a research project. The May 21 encounter happened near a group of small sandbanks in the Spratly Islands where two Filipino ships were collecting sand samples "as part of a marine scientific research initiative", the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said in a statement.