RESCUE ONGOING: A crew member reportedly ordered more than 10 people to jump overboard at knifepoint after killing his crewmate during a verbal altercation
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 21, 2019
By: Chen Yen-ting, Chien Hui-ju and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Crew members aboard a Taiwanese fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean were held by their crewmates
The tuna fishing vessel Wen Peng is moored in a harbor in an undated photograph.
Photo copied by Chen Yen-ting, Taipei Times
yesterday after a verbal conflict between two Philippine crew members escalated into a physical confrontation, witnesses said.
Twenty-four people were aboard the Wen Peng, including three Taiwanese, 10 Filipinos and 11 Indonesians, the Fisheries Agency said.
The three Taiwanese were captain Chen Chen-mao (陳振茂), chief engineer Kao Hsin-kuang (高信光) and observer Yang Wen-pin (楊文斌), an agency official, it said.
Two Philippine crew members were engaged in a verbal conflict when one stabbed and killed the other at about 2am, sources said. [FULL STORY]
