11渔民中国南海被不明武装人员劫持后失去联系。这11名渔民乘坐的是琼琼海09063渔船，于周二上午10时左右在南沙半月礁被武装人员劫持。
Contact with 11 fishermen has been lost after they were intercepted by armed men in the South China Sea.
The fishermen were on board fishing boat Qiongqionghai 09063. It was intercepted by an unidentified armed vessel at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday in waters off the Half Moon Shoal of Nansha Islands, a major fishing base for Chinese fishermen.
The Tanmen fishing association says several armed men forced themselves onto the boat and fired four or five shots in the air. They then took control of the boat. Another nearby fishing boat, Qiongqionghai 03168, rushed away after seeing the armed boat. It encountered another armed boat later but successfully escaped. The Qionghai municipal government has mobilized two nearby fishing boats to search for the missing fishermen but failed to find the boat as of Wednesday morning.
Reuters News agency reports, the Philippine police have confirmed capture of Chinese fishing boat, and the boat is being towed to southeastern Palawan Province.
