HANOI • Indonesia’s navy shot and wounded four Vietnamese fishermen aboard a fishing boat in the South China Sea at the weekend, the Vietnamese authorities said..
HANOI • Indonesia’s navy shot and wounded four Vietnamese fishermen aboard a fishing boat in the South China Sea at the weekend, the Vietnamese authorities said.
The Vietnamese boat, which had six sailors on board, was about 245km south-east of Vietnam’s Con Dao island when the fishermen were shot last Saturday night, the Binh Dinh provincial search and rescue committee said on its website.
The boat was led back to Con Dao island early yesterday morning and the wounded men were taken to hospital.
«Two seriously injured sailors were sent to the Con Dao district’s medical centre and their situation is improving, » the report said. The two others sustained lighter injuries.
The coordinates given by the Vietnamese indicated that the shooting happened close to the area Indonesia now calls the North Natuna Sea.
