China to attack Vietnamese ship and beat crew

Chinese personnel boarded a Vietnamese fishing boat off the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and beat the crew with iron rods, seriously injuring four of them, after a Chinese ship chase by Chinese ships near the islands claimed by both countries Ships came, a Vietnamese official said.

The boat’s captain, Nguyen Thanh Bien, said Tien Phong News site that his boat was pursued on Sunday by two ships with hull numbers 101 and 301. He said they sent three smaller boats to capture his ship in a pincer maneuver, allowing cloaked men to climb aboard and attack the crew.

“I tried to run to the bow of the ship. “But two people held me and attacked me so violently that I lost consciousness,” he said.I woke up about an hour later.

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