The World : Pirates Kill 50 Vietnamese

Pirates killed 50 Vietnamese refugees on a boat in the South China Sea, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported. Of 80 people aboard, only 2 men and 28 women and children reached safety in Malaysia. Four days after the Vietnamese fled from the Ho Chi Minh City area, pirates in two fishing boats stopped their vessel, pillaged it, threw the adult men overboard and raped the women, the U.N. agency said. The attack was one of the most barbaric reported since the boat exodus started after the Vietnam War.