Philippine coast guards laughed while firing at Taiwanese fishing boat

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It looked like hoot, with six coast guards laughing as they fired at the Taiwanese fishing boat.

"The video showed the soldiers... laughing while they were shooting the boat," a source who had seen the video of the Philippine Coast Guard shooting of fishing boat Guang Ta Hsin 28 three weeks ago said Saturday.

Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-chen, 65, was hit and killed in the shooting, which happened during a high-speed chase in waters off Balintang Island in northern Philippines on May 9.

The source said the Coast Guard submitted the video to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) after President Benigno Aquino III ordered an investigation of the fatal shooting of Hung, which sparked a major diplomatic row between Taiwan and the Philippines.

However, contrary to reports, the source said, the coast guards did not rake the fishing boat with gunfire. They had been aiming for what they thought was the engine room to stop the boat, the source said.

The fisherman's daughter, Hung Tzu-chen, has filed murder charges, but did not name anyone in her complaint.

Taiwanese investigators told a news conference on Friday that they could identify the coast guard who fired the bullet that killed Hung through the results of the ballistic tests on the firearms submitted for the probe.

The Taiwanese investigative team returned to Taipei on Friday.