Chaotic seas: Indian Navy conducts raid and rescues cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates

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The most important disruption attributable to the Yemeni Houthis within the Purple Sea is hardly the one bother spot on the planet's more and more harmful seas.

An Indian Navy warship has intercepted a hijacked cargo ship within the Indian Ocean, rescued all 17 crew members and detained all 35 Somali pirates.

Indian Naval ship INS Kolkata got here to the rescue of Bulgarian ship MV Rouen, which was hijacked by pirates on December 14, 2023. The operation lasted a minimum of 40 hours.

The hijacking of Rouen was the primary profitable motion by Somali pirates prior to now six years, regardless of efforts by a number of worldwide navies to forestall piracy within the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

Reuters reported:

“Pirates who allegedly hijacked a Maltese-flagged bulk cargo ship on December 14 fired on a navy ship in worldwide waters on Friday (15),” the spokesman mentioned, with out giving additional particulars.

The Indian Navy referred to as on the pirates to give up and launch the hostages.

“Somali pirates who seized the ship in December could have used it to take over a Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia this week,” the European Union's naval pressure mentioned on Thursday.

The ship is below the management of Somali pirates.

Till the seizure of Rouen, there had not been a profitable hijacking of a service provider ship by Somali pirates since 2017.

The Occasions of India reported:

“The 40-hour lengthy rescue operation on Saturday with the help of INS Subhadra (Kolkata Naval Ship) rescued all 17 crew members with none accidents and compelled all 35 pirates to give up.

Kolkata had intercepted the pirate ship Rouen roughly (1600 miles) off the Indian coast, and thru calibrated actions augmented by maritime patrol (ship) Subhadra, (drone) Hale RPA, P8I, Was compelled to. The plane and (Marine commando) Marcos Prahar had been shot down within the air by a C-17 plane.”

The ship was secured for the presence of unlawful weapons, ammunition and contraband.

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