Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/01/07
By: Wang Chao-yu and Lilian Wu

Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) A Taiwan fishing boat carrying illegal Vietnamese immigrants was intercepted off the

coast of Yilan Friday night and 46 people were arrested, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said Saturday.

It said 40 of the people arrested were illegal Vietnamese immigrants — 25 men and 15 women — who were packed into a space that was only 1.2 meters high.

The other six people were the captain and crew of the Wun Shun Man No. 66 (穩順滿66號), a fishing vessel registered in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, the CGA said.

The boat was intercepted 9.2 nautical miles off the coast of Yilan in northeastern Taiwan after the CGA received a tipoff that it was carrying illegal immigrants, said Shen Da-wei (沈大偉), deputy chief of CGA’s Northern Coastal Patrol Office.    [FULL  STORY]