Navy intercepts Viet fishing trawler


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Under arrest: Navy personnel boarding the Vietnamese fishing boat.

KUANTAN: The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) arrested 14 Vietnamese fishermen after a high sea chase. The fishermen were cornered about 130 nautical miles northeast of Kemaman.

The men on the fishing trawler, aged between 20 and 40, were trawling in Malaysian waters when the RMN’s KD Pahang detected it.

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