Pirates board tanker, gun down Vietnamese crew member


From The Star



KUALA LUMPUR: Armed men who boarded a tanker in the sea off Pulau Aur, south Johor Sunday, shot dead a Vietnamese crew member and robbed the 16-man crew in what was described as the first fatality in Malaysian waters in two years.










A oil tanker ship sails past a fishing port in Vietnam. (HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)


The injured man was airlifted to a Singapore hospital where he succumbed to a gunshot wound in the head.


The attack occurred about 5.30am while the asphalt-laden vessel was on its way from Singapore to Vietnam.


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