Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Malaysia`s coast guard has stepped up security in the Strait of Malacca after a shipping body said the Singapore Navy had warned a terror group is planning attacks on oil tankers in the key shipping lane.

"The agency is aware of the alert that has been sent out and is stepping up security of the Malacca Straits," an official from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, who declined to be named, said on Thursday.

Up to 80 percent of China`s oil imports and 30 percent of its iron ore imports pass through the Strait of Malacca -- a narrow, congested waterway between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

(Uu.SYS/C/R013/S026)

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