Two Filipino fishermen have been saved by a Vietnamese fishing boat after seven days drifting at sea.

On January 9, fishing boat captain Nguyen Thai Hung from the southern central coastal province of Phu Yen gave Filipino Villardo C.Ruzr and Severino Noveras Camposano to the provincial coastguard force.

Captain Nguyen Thai Hung and one of the two saved Filipino fisherman

Hung said that on December 24, 2016, while fishing some 160 nautical miles from Song Tu Tay Island of Khanh Hoa Province’s Truong Sa District, his boat found the two exhausted Filipino fishermen drifting at sea. He took measures to rescue the men.

The Filipino men said they had been in the sea since December 17 while their fishing boat faced an accident, leaving them seven days at sea.

The two fishermen have recovered and Phu Yen Province’s coastguards are completing procedures to return the two men to their country.