Chinese captain dead in fishing clash in South Korea

[yuiyoshida]

Source: AP NEWS

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hospital officials say the captain of a Chinese fishing vessel was killed in a clash with the South Korean coast guard after his boat was stopped for suspected illegal fishing.

An emergency room worker at the Mokpo Hankook Hospital said Friday that the 45-year-old Chinese national died at around 11.30am about 30 minutes after he arrived by helicopter. The hospital did not immediately announce the cause of death.

Coast guard official Kim Hye-gyeong says a South Korean guardsman shot the man in the stomach with a handgun after he violently resisted the inspection. Kim says the victim’s boat was 78 miles (125 kilometers) into South Korean waters near the island of Wangdeungdo when it was stopped.

Kim says it wasn’t immediately known whether there were other injuries.


Read more: http://asiancorrespondent.com/127328/chinese-captain-dead-in-fishing-clash-in-south-korea/

[freshwest]

1. Not good. Keep us updated.

[davidpdx]

2. The Chinese and North Koreans don't give a flying fuck about the maritime boarders of South Korea

China thinks they own the entire region anyway. They shouldn't have shot the guy though, they should have put a few holes in his boat and made him swim until he decided to give up.

[heaven05]

3. hmmmm

let me see. 1914 Serbia and shots fired+archduke of Austria and wife assassination=WWI. Not saying a fishing boat captain is as important as an archduke but we'll see.

[FLPanhandle]

4. The Chinese are notorious for ignoring fishing boundaries

They'll keep doing it as they do to all countries.

[snooper2]

5. I guess he learned his lesson