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Min Ping Yu No. 5202

Min Ping Yu No. 5202 shipwreck
Native name 闽平渔5202号船难
English nameMin Ping Yu No. 5202 shipwreck
Date13 August 1990
Time10:08 pm (UTC+8)
Location13 nautical miles north of Keelung, Taiwan Province
CauseHit by ROCS Wen Shan PF-834
Participants50 Fujian residents being repatriated, Republic of China Navy
Deaths21

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.

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  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference TaKung0817 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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