The Vietnamese boat illegally entered the area to fish and refused to leave, the Chinese coast guard said late yesterday. — Reuters pic
The Vietnamese fishing vessel, with eight fishermen onboard, was fishing near the Paracel Islands on Thursday when it was rammed and sunk by the Chinese vessel, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said in a statement posted on a government website today. “The Chinese vessel committed an act that violated Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa archipelago and threatened the lives and damaged the property and legitimate interests of Vietnamese fishermen,” the foreign ministry said in its statement, referring to the Paracel Islands by its Vietnamese name.
The Vietnamese boat illegally entered the area to fish and refused to leave, the Chinese coast guard said late yesterday.
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