A video widely shared on social media reportedly shows a Vietnamese coast guard ship hitting an Indonesian navy ship Monday, after the navy intercepted a boat it says was fishing illegally in its waters.
According to international media, Indonesian authorities detained 12 Vietnamese fishermen from the vessel, which sank in Saturday’s clash, and they were held at a naval base ‘for further legal proceedings’, sources from Indonesian navy say, while two others were rescued by Vietnam’s coast guard.
The Vietnamese fishing vessel was intercepted in waters off Indonesia’s Natuna island chain, which is in the southernmost reaches of the South China Sea, The Associated Press reported.
