Three crew members of a Chinese fishing boat have gone missing after they collided with an unidentified vessel and sank in waters off Kinmen’s Dongding Island, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said yesterday.
The CGA received a report from its Taipei mission control center at 4:33am yesterday saying that the Chinese-flagged Min Long Yu 60877 sank after colliding with an unidentified vessel 12.04km east of Dongding, the CGA’s Kinmen-Penghu-Matsu Branch said in a statement.
The branch said it had dispatched three patrol vessels to the scene, with the first one arriving shortly after 6am.
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Four of the Min Long Yu 60877’s seven crew members were rescued by nearby Chinese fishing vessels, the branch said, adding that it has not been able to locate the remaining three.
The coast guard and its Chinese counterparts were carrying out “an expanded search and rescue” in nearby waters to try to find the missing crew members, the CGA said.
A fatal incident involving a Chinese boat near Kinmen on Feb. 14 started a months-long row between Taiwan and China. The boat had capsized while it was being pursued by Taiwanese coast guard personnel, resulting in the death of two Chinese fishers, for which Beijing blamed Taipei.
The two sides reached an agreement last month after negotiations over the incident, saying that the cause of death was “drowning.”
Additional reporting by AFP
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