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Taiwan ship attacked by pirates
The captain of a Taiwan fisheries cargo ship has been wounded after his vessel was attacked by pirate boats in the Malacca Strait. The 3,000-tonne "Tung Yi" based in Taiwan's southern Kaohsiung city, was attacked by two pirate vessels while it was sailing for Singapore on Saturday local time, an official from Taiwan's National Rescue Command Centre said. "The two pirate ships were disguised as oil rig tug boats... that was why the captain did not pay attention to them when they showed up," an official from the centre quoted the captain as saying. The captain, identified as Lo Ying-hsiung, said his ship had to speed away following the submachine gun attack which lasted for some two hours. The captain was hit in the knee by a bullet and some of the ship's steering equipment was damaged. The rest of the crew, including nine Taiwanese and 24 Philippine, Chinese and Vietnamese sailors, escaped unscathed.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-11 |
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