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Cabin cruiser catches fire off Rotto

File picture: The West Australian

A vessel which caught fire off Rottnest this morning is being towed back to Fremantle by water police.

A mayday call was made from the 10m cabin cruiser just after 8.30am.

A water police spokesman said by the time crews arrived the fire had been extinguished by the two people on board.

They were uninjured.

It is not known how the fire started.