Three members of the Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance Force were lightly wounded on Saturday after their ships were hit and sprayed with water cannons from Chinese vessels around Beijing’s oil rig Haiyang Shiyou 981, illegally planted in Vietnam’s waters in the East Vietnam Sea since early this month.
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The attacks from the Chinese side also caused damage to the audio-visual equipment and antennae of eight Vietnamese ships tasked with requesting China to move their oil rig and escort vessels out of the Vietnamese waters.
The latest figure brings the number of injured staff of the Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance Force to 12.
Before that, nine members of the force had been wounded during two separate attacks from the Chinese ships.
According to the Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance Force, China on May 24 dispatched 127 vessels, including one warship, to guard its drilling platform.
On the same day, four aircraft were seen flying above Vietnamese ships at an altitude of 300m to 500m while a Chinese missile frigate was spotted moving away from the oil rig and anchoring in the southeastern area of Tri Ton Island of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.
Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance Force ships still tried to come close to the oil rig to demand that China withdraw the platform and escort vessels from the sea area. Sometimes, the Vietnamese ships were just 3.7 nautical miles from the rig.
The Chinese-run drilling rig is located at 15°29’58” North latitude and 111°12’06” East longitude in the East Vietnam Sea, within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, as the drilling platform lies about 119 nautical miles (221 km) from Ly Son Island off the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai and 18 nautical miles south of Tri Ton Island.
China has put it there since May 1 despite strong opposition from Vietnam.
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