AFP reporters saw several small projectiles fired from the proximity of nearby military installations flying into the sky followed by plumes of white smoke and loud booming sounds around 1.13 pm (0513 GMT).
China’s military said in a statement it had carried out “long-range live ammunition firing on specific areas in the eastern Taiwan Strait.”
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army launched missiles with conventional warheads into the water areas east of Taiwan in large-scale drills around the island, Spokesperson for the Chinese Army’s Eastern Theater Command Senior Colonel Shi Yi said in a statement on Thursday.
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All the missiles accurately hit the notional targets in the designated areas of the drills, the spokesperson said.
The Chinese Amy accomplished all the tasks of its live-fire exercise in full and control of the relevant parts of the sea and the airspace was lifted, the statement reads.