President hears briefing on missile accident
ROC Central News Agency
2016/07/02 19:05:58
Taipei, July 2 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) called a National Security Council (NSC) meeting Saturday to hear a briefing on the accidental launch of an anti-ship missile a day earlier.
Tsai, who just returned from a trip to Panama and Paraguay, was briefed by officials from the NSC and the Ministry of National Defense.
Also attending the meeting were Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁), Premier Lin Chuan (林全), Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世寬), Mainland Affairs Minister Chang Hsiao-yueh (張小月), Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lee (李大維), Coast Guard Administration Director-General Lee Chung-wei (李仲威) and Navy Commander Adm. Huang Shu-kuang (黃曙光).
The locally developed Hsiung Feng III missile was accidentally launched from one of the Navy's 500-ton Chinchiang-class corvettes at Zuoying Military Harbor in Kaohsiung during a drill on Friday and hit a fishing boat, killing the captain and injuring three other crew members on the boat.
The ministry has issued an apology and has blamed the incident on human error; it said a petty officer on board the Chinchiang (PGG-610) did not follow standard operating procedure and launched the missile during a simulated attack.
(By Lu Hsin-hui and Y.F. Low)
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