2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident

2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident
The Chinese motorboat seen from the Coast Guard carrier
DateFebruary 14, 2024 (2024-02-14)
Location0.5 nmi east of Beiding Island, Kinmen, Fuchien Province, ROC
CauseCollision between a motorboat from Quanzhou, PRC and a Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel inside the restricted waters of Kinmen
Participants Republic of China
Deaths2

The 2024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident, also called the 2/14 Kinmen Incident, took place on 14 February 2024, when a boat of the 9th Brigade of the Taiwanese Coast Guard Administration (CGA) collided with a Chinese motorboat in the waters of Kinmen, Fuchien Province, Taiwan (ROC). All four crew members of the Chinese motorboat were thrown into the water, two of whom later died.