GOVERMENT HOUSE HUNG KUNG.
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Round Island (H) in Hong Kong waters.
A police launch
was tasked to locate the missing vessel, which it did at 1045 hours, 2 nautical miles east of Yuen Kok (), Lamma Island, position 22° 10° 4 'north, 114* 11" 0'east. drifting.
The vessel was
At 1050 hours the captain of the Coluyen 02 jumped
At 1122 hours overboard and was picked up by the RHKP launch. the Police launch went alongside the Vietnamese vessel, on board were 12 armed PRC security officers and 18 Vietnamese
The PRC crewmen (who were under guard in the canteen).
officer in charge was Choi Kwan-ping (1) who stated
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He asked
that he belonged to the Zhuhai City Public Security Bureau and
His that he was Head of the Border Security Department. telephone numbers were 9004240 (Hong Kong Mobile Phone) and 225 858 8068 (Office). He claimed that the Coluyen 02 had been intercepted in PRC waters but had developed engine problems and had drifted inside Hong Kong waters. Marine Police to telephone his speedboat to return to pick him up and agreed to hand over the Vietnamese vessel. arrangements were made and at 1320 hours the PRC officers boarded their speedboats and departed. Both speedboats were 12 metres long, grey in colour with 4 Mercury 270 h.p. engines. One had no numbers, the other was Gong Bian 1202.
These
However, the vietnamese Captain's version was very different. He had reported his ship's position to Marine Department 4 times (the log of the vessel was examined and no discrepancy was found). Soon after passing Buoy LCS1 in the middle of East Lamma Channel, he was boarded by the Chinese security officers. He deliberately stopped his engine to avoid being forced to go to China and told the Chinese
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