Fishermen die in clash with coastguards
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THREE Chinese fishermen were killed on Thursday in a fire that broke out on their boat when South Korean coastguards trying to apprehend them for illegal fishing threw flash grenades into an area where they were hiding, a South Korean official said.
Disputes over illegal fishing are an irritant in relations between China and South Korea, even as their economic relations grow close.
The three men were believed to have suffocated, a coastguard official in the South Korean port city of Mokpo said, adding that the incident was being investigated.
The fire broke out in the boat’s steering room, the official said. He declined to be identified in a phone conversation with reporters as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
South Korean authorities were questioning the 14 surviving crew and coastguard members involved in the operation, the official added.
China’s foreign ministry said it had lodged a protest with Seoul about the incident.
Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a news briefing that China was also urging South Korea to hold a “comprehensive and objective” investigation into the incident, along with China.
The Chinese boat, caught fishing off the southwest of the peninsula, about 70 kilometers southwest of Hongdo Island, was being brought to a South Korean port yesterday, the coastguard official said.
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