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Australia on Saturday accused the Chinese navy of likely causing minor injuries to Australian naval divers by operating its sonar while they were trying to clear fishing nets from their ships propellers...
The Australian government has expressed its serious concerns to the Chinese government over what it called the unsafe and unprofessional conduct earlier this week, Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement on his official website...
As diving operations were underway, a Chinese destroyer moved towards the Australian ship and was detected operating its hull-mounted sonar in a way that posed a risk to the divers and forced them to get out of the water, the statement said...
The divers sustained minor injuries likely due to being subject to the sonar pulses from the Chinese destroyer, it said.. Australian Sen. James Paterson, a member of the opposition Liberal Party, noted the incident came shortly after a visit by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to Beijing to improve his countrys ties with China...
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