KAOHSIUNG , Taiwan, July 1 (UPI) -- Taiwan's navy mistakenly fired a supersonic missile designed to penetrate warships Friday, striking a fishing boat and killing its captain.
The Hsiung Fang III missile was aboard a patrol boat undergoing a drill inspection in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, when the missile was accidentally fired toward the Chinese mainland, a navy official said. The missile flew for about two minutes across the Taiwan Strait, dividing China from Taiwan, but did not cross the maritime border line.