Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/19
By: Tyson Lu and Frances Huang
Taipei, March 19 (CNA) Two Vietnamese drowned off eastern Taitung in the early hours of
Photo courtesy of Coast Guard Administration
Monday while attempting to illegally enter the country, according to the Coast Guard Administration (CGA).
Li Chih-hao (李智豪), a section chief in the CGA Eastern Coastal Patrol Office, said the two Vietnamese, one man and one woman, fell into the water when the rubber dinghy they were in capsized due to high waves as they approached the Taitung coast.
Li said the two died, despite being pulled from the water by a patrol boat and rushed to hospital.
Four other occupants of the dinghy, two Vietnamese women, a Vietnamese man and a Taiwanese man, were also thrown into the water, Li said, adding that they made it to land where they were arrested by coastguard officers. [FULL STORY]
