Off-target Taiwan missile drill damages car

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Off-target Taiwan missile drill damages car

TAIPEI (AFP) - A missile fired in an Taiwan air defence drill went off-course, missing its target and damaging a car in a remote village, although no one was injured, the navy and media said on Sunday.

The incident happened during a live-fire drill at Chiupeng military base in southern Taiwan in March.

A marine unit fired one US-made Chaparral surface-to-air missile which successfully destroyed its target but a second missed, veering off target and exploding above the remote coastal village of Kangtsai, the United Evening News reported.

Shrapnel from the missile pierced the village chief's parked sedan but no one was injured, it said. The newspaper said the military had repaired the car and until now news of the incident had not spread beyond the village.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_806651.html