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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Chinese tugboat rams Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ship

Chinese tugboat rams Vietnamese fisheries surveillance shipOne of the Chinese vessels that are guarding China’s drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou 981 in Vietnam’s waters rammed Friday a Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ship as they continued approaching to threaten Vietnamese ships near the facility.

The attacking ship is a tugboat #9, which crashed into Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ship HP 926 at 11 am on Friday, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported the same day.

The ramming at a high speed by the Chinese tugboat not only violated the navigation regulations but also was a very dangerous action that threatened the lives of all the Vietnamese crewmembers aboard the ship, said Nguyen Cao Duy, the captain of vessel HP 926.

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