2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident

2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident
	The Chinese motorboat seen from the Coast Guard carrier
Date	February 14, 2024
Location	0.5 nmi east of Beiding Island, Kinmen, Fuchien Province, R.O.C.
Cause	Boat chase of a motorboat from Quanzhou, PRC fleeing a pullover by the Taiwanese Coast Guards while trespassing in the restricted waters of Kinmen.
Participants	Republic of China Ocean Affairs Council Coast Guard Administration; ;
Deaths	2

The 2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident, also called the 2/14 Kinmen Incident, took place on 14 February 2024, when a boat of the 9th Brigade of the Coast Guard Administration of Taiwan (CGA) collided with a Chinese motorboat which was trespassing and illegally fishing in the waters of Kinmen, Fuchien Province, Taiwan (ROC). All four crew members of the Chinese motorboat were thrown into the water, two of whom later died.

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