Native name | 闽平渔5202号船难 |
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English name | Min Ping Yu No. 5202 shipwreck |
Date | 13 August 1990 |
Time | 10:08 pm (UTC+8) |
Location | 13 nautical miles north of Keelung, Taiwan Province |
Cause | Hit by ROCS Wen Shan PF-834 |
Participants | 50 Fujian residents being repatriated, Republic of China Navy |
Deaths | 21 |
Min Ping Yu No. 5202 was a 50-foot mainland Chinese fishing boat from Baiqing Township , Pingtan County, Fujian Province[1][2] that sank on August 13, 1990, drowning 21 people, after being hit by Taiwan's naval vessel ROCS Wen Shan PF-834 while carrying out a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants. Of the 50 mainland Chinese on board, 29 were rescued by Taiwan's Navy. It was the second tragedy in repatriation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants in less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.