Chinese captain killed during fishing clash with S Korea coastguard
Fishing boat captain reported shot dead after clashes between South Korean coastguards and Chinese vessels operating illegally in the Yellow Sea
Hospital officials say the captain of a Chinese fishing vessel was killed in a clash with the South Korean coastguard after his boat was stopped for suspected illegal fishing.
An emergency room worker at the Mokpo Hankook Hospital said on Friday that the 45-year-old Chinese national died at around 11.10am about 30 minutes after he arrived by helicopter. The hospital did not immediately announce the cause of death.
Coastguard 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 125 kilometres 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.