Chinese and Vietnamese coast guard ships are patrolling near the Haiyang Shiyou oil rig, seen to the rear
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Vietnam, China Trade Accusations Over Sunken Boat
Vietnamese Fishing Boat Sinks Near Location of Chinese Oil Rig
A China Coast Guard vessel patrols near a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters in the South China Sea earlier this month. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
HANOI—Vietnam and China traded accusations Tuesday about the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat a day earlier, as tensions flared anew over an oil rig that China placed in disputed waters.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang reiterated Chinese official media accounts that the Vietnamese fishing boat entered waters near the oil rig, collided with a Chinese fishing boat and capsized.
The Vietnamese vessel, he said, "insisted on disturbing the normal operations of the Chinese side and took dangerous actions on the seas."
But Le Hai Binh, Vietnam's foreign ministry spokesman, accused Chinese vessels of ramming the Vietnamese fishing boat, calling it "inhumane action, seriously infringing the lives and properties of and legitimate interests of Vietnamese fishermen."
The Vietnamese foreign ministry and a Coast Guard official said all 10 fishermen on the boat were rescued by Vietnamese vessels. The incident, Vietnam said, occurred about 17 nautical miles southwest of the rig's location.
The ministry said it had called in a representative from the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi to formally protest what it said was the latest in a series of attacks by Chinese boats on Vietnamese fishermen in the rig's vicinity. It wasn't clear if the embassy representative had responded to the summons.
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