One crew member was killed by a shark and another 18 were missing after a Taiwanese fishing vessel capsized in rough seas off Taiwan's southern tip, rescue services said yesterday. The Kaohsiung-registered fishing trawler Fu Chi Hsiang 767 carried a crew of 28, including six Taiwanese nationals, twelve Chinese, eight Vietnamese and two Filipinos, rescue services said.Only nine crew members were rescued by yesterday noon, with 18 still missing. One of the rescued crew told reporters that he had seen one of his colleagues, 45-year-old Taiwanese citizen Chen Te-hsing, being attacked and bitten by a shark. The other fishermen held on to Chen for hours, but loss of blood sent him into shock, the eyewitness said. A wave sent Chen to the bottom of the sea, he said. Rescue workers were unable to recover his body.
A helicopter found the first group of seven survivors, three Taiwanese, two Chinese and two Vietnamese nationals. Later yesterday afternoon, a rescue vessel found another two Vietnamese crew members, the coastguard said.
The men spent more than 16 hours in the cold water, but three of the survivors were let out of hospital yesterday evening.
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