• IP addresses are NOT logged in this forum so there's no point asking. Please note that this forum is full of homophobes, racists, lunatics, schizophrenics & absolute nut jobs with a smattering of geniuses, Chinese chauvinists, Moderate Muslims and last but not least a couple of "know-it-alls" constantly sprouting their dubious wisdom. If you believe that content generated by unsavory characters might cause you offense PLEASE LEAVE NOW! Sammyboy Admin and Staff are not responsible for your hurt feelings should you choose to read any of the content here.

    The OTHER forum is HERE so please stop asking.

Vietnam says 7 killed in shooting on China border

Hysteria

Alfrescian (Inf)
Asset

Vietnam says 7 killed in shooting on China border

AFP
April 19, 2014, 2:47 am

863e709f98e01b4bfc72fb4be9c0b62b4579865f-19l2m1i.jpg


Hanoi (AFP) - Seven people were killed in a gun battle between border guards and Chinese illegal migrants at a remote frontier crossing in northeast Vietnam, authorities said Friday.

Sixteen Chinese nationals -- 10 men, four women and two children -- were detained early Friday after attempting to enter Vietnam, the Quang Ninh provincial government said in a statement.

While authorities were preparing to send them back, "some Chinese men in this group seized guns from Vietnamese border guards and shot at them... killing one guard on the spot," the statement said.

Vietnamese and Chinese authorities sought to calm the situation but the migrants refused to drop their weapons and a firefight erupted, it added.

In total two Vietnamese border guards and five Chinese migrants were killed, according to the statement, which said the incident was "not a terrorist attack".

It was not immediately possible to verify the authorities' account.

The statement did not say whether the dead included Chinese women and children.

Vietnamese state media reported that the Chinese migrants were from the Muslim-majority province of Xingjian but there was no independent confirmation.

Vietnam's remote northeastern region, which borders China's Guangxi province, is poor and mostly populated by a patchwork of ethnic minority groups.

There have been previous human trafficking and people smuggling cases in the area, including of Vietnamese women forced to marry Chinese men and young boys kidnapped for sale to wealthy childless Chinese families.

But it is unusual for irregular Chinese migrants to be caught trying to enter Vietnam, with more Vietnamese migrants travelling north to find work in China's fast-growing cities.

No data exists on the scale of economic migration across the remote, sparsely guarded border but it is believed to be widespread as it is difficult for the neighbouring communist countries to control all movement across their 1,300 plus kilometre-long joint border.

 

Lotto

Alfrescian (Inf)
Asset

7 dead in shooting at China-Vietnam border

Xinhua
2014-04-19

C419N0010H_N71_copy1.JPG


Two Chinese border guards on patrol near the Vietnamese border, April 19. (Photo/CNS)

Five Chinese nationals and two Vietnamese border guards were killed Friday in a shooting at the border of Vietnam's northern province of Quang Ninh, according to local media reports.

The Chinese victims were among a group of illegal immigrants trying to enter Vietnam, according to the reports.

They were detained by Vietnamese officials and as they were being repatriated, some of them allegedly snatched a guard's gun and opened fire, killing a Vietnamese border guard instantly.

The guards then took "legitimate self-defence measures" and tried to approach and arrest the group, who had by then holed up and tried to destroy the office, according to the reports.

The situation was brought under control at 3:15pm local time, costing the lives of seven people.

China's Foreign Ministry said on its official Sina microblog Friday night that it was aware of the reports and was taking steps to verify them.


 
Top