A military coastguard search plane with nine people on board disappeared in Vietnam while on a mission, the local media reported Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The search plane lost contact with command near the Bach Long Vi island, a small island in the Gulf of Tonkin that is located halfway between mainland Vietnam and China’s Hainan island, on Thursday, the Thanh Nien Daily said, referring to the Vietnamese National Committee for Search and Rescue.

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