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07-02-2016, 05:52 AM
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Taiwan fires missile towards China
TAIPEI: A Taiwanese warship mistakenly launched a supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile towards China on Friday, hitting a fishing boat and killing one person, the navy said, as ties between the island and its once bitter rival deteriorate.
The Hsiung-feng III (Brave Wind) missile flew about 75-km before hitting the trawler in waters off Penghu, a Taiwanese-administered island group in the Taiwan Strait. The skipper on the Taiwanese 60-tonne trawler was killed and three other crew on board, including a Vietnamese and a Filipi**, were injured. "An initial investigation showed that the incident has caused the death of the skipper," Taiwan’s defence ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi told reporters. "We apologise to the family of the skipper and would like to convey our condolences to them." The missile was fired during a drill at around 8:10 am (0010 GMT) from a 500-tonne missile ship docked at a naval base in the southern city of Tsoying and flew in the direction of China. The navy said the missile, which has a range of 300-km, went through the trawler, but did **t explode, **r did it sink the fishing vessel. أكثر... 
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