On August 4 mainland China's Hsin-hua News Agency released a report stating that 25 persons had died of suffocation in the hold of a boat due to Taiwan's "inhumane" methods of deporting illegal mainland immigrants back across the Taiwan Strait.
八月四日，中共「新華社」發出一則報導，指稱由於我國政府對大陸偷渡客「不人道」的遣返方式，致使廿五人被關在船艙內悶死。