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Taiwan Fishing Boat Seized by Japan

2016-04-26 08:55:37       source:Xinhua News Agency

April 25, 2016

 

"A Taiwan fishing ship with 10 people on board, including a sick man, was chased and seized by a Japanese vessel near Okinotori Atoll, some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo, said sources in Taiwan.

 

The fishing vessel, 'Tung Sheng Chi 16,' from Pingdong in southern Taiwan, was on its way back as mainland fisherman Lin Mingyuan had suffered an asthma attack and needed urgent treatment, said Tseng Yu-tzung, an official with a local fishing sector association in Pingdong."

 

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