Two Chinese fishermen killed after Coast Guard pursues them at sea

Two Chinese men who were fishing in the water near Taiwan’s Kinmen islands died after the Taiwanese coastguard tried to catch them.

Taipei said the fishing boat went into Taiwanese waters on Wednesday without permission.

Four fishermen on a boat refused to be checked by the authorities, and the boat overturned when the authorities tried to follow them.

Beijing was very upset about the incident and said it really hurt the feelings of people in Taiwan and China.

Kinmen is very close to China, just 3km away, and is on the front line of the conflict between China and Taiwan.

China thinks of Taiwan as a part of its own country and may use force to make it part of China someday.

Recently, people who live in Kinmen have said they are seeing more Chinese boats that dig up sand and mud near the island. The group of islands has around 180,000 people and is 187km away from Taiwan’s main island.

The coastguard said two out of the four people on the Chinese boat were declared dead at the hospital after attempts to revive them didn’t work.

“The other two people are okay and have been taken to Kinmen for more investigation by the prosecutors,” the statement said.

Wednesday’s incident happened when things were already getting tense between the two groups. In January, Taiwan chose a new leader that China sees as wanting to split from China.

China’s office that deals with Taiwan has asked the Taiwanese government to look into the situation and help the families of the victims.

Zhu Fenglian, a person who speaks for the government, said that the ruling party in Taiwan is taking Chinese fishing boats without permission and hurting the fishermen in a violent way.

She said that Beijing thinks that the communities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are like one big family.

She said they have worked hard to make things easier for fishermen on both sides.

The Taiwan government supported the coastguard’s actions on Thursday and asked China to stop doing the same things in their waters.

“Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said that many Chinese fishing boats have been coming into our off-limits waters and catching valuable fish, especially during the Lunar New Year. ”

“We feel very sorry that the Chinese crew did not work with our law enforcement and this bad thing happened,” it said.