Chinese tugboat rams Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ship

One 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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