This Wednesday, an official said that an Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden.
The skirmish took place Tuesday evening about 525 kilometers southwest of Oman's Salalah port.
The Saudi owners of a hijacked oil supertanker carrying an oil cargo worth up to $100 million, which pirates Tuesday anchored off the Somali coast, said they were negotiating with its captors.
The ministry said that the pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of this vessel, with guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
On wednesday, it wasn't clear, that if the mother ship sank afther the naval fighting.
The assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau in London, said that they never seen a situation like this with the pirates.
On Tuesday, pirates hijacked a Thai fishing vessel and a Chinese-flagged Iranian cargo shio carrying wheat in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
Noel choong, said that 95 pirate attacks have taken place so far this year in the Gulf of Aden.
Of those 95, 39 resulted in successful captures; 17 of those vessels and their crews remain in the hands of the pirates (a total of about 300 sailors).
But the seizure of the 300.000-ton supertanker Sirius Star took place well sout of the gulf, in the Indian Ocean of Kenya.
Pirate attacks are spreading farther north to the Gulf of Aden and farther soutf of the Kenyan coast.
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The skirmish took place Tuesday evening about 525 kilometers southwest of Oman's Salalah port.
The Saudi owners of a hijacked oil supertanker carrying an oil cargo worth up to $100 million, which pirates Tuesday anchored off the Somali coast, said they were negotiating with its captors.
The ministry said that the pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of this vessel, with guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
On wednesday, it wasn't clear, that if the mother ship sank afther the naval fighting.
The assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau in London, said that they never seen a situation like this with the pirates.
On Tuesday, pirates hijacked a Thai fishing vessel and a Chinese-flagged Iranian cargo shio carrying wheat in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
Noel choong, said that 95 pirate attacks have taken place so far this year in the Gulf of Aden.
Of those 95, 39 resulted in successful captures; 17 of those vessels and their crews remain in the hands of the pirates (a total of about 300 sailors).
But the seizure of the 300.000-ton supertanker Sirius Star took place well sout of the gulf, in the Indian Ocean of Kenya.
Pirate attacks are spreading farther north to the Gulf of Aden and farther soutf of the Kenyan coast.
This notice is taken from this link.
NEW VOCABULARY:
Hijacking: segrestador/segrest.
Skirmish: escaramussa.
Deck: coberta del vaixell.
Vessel: embarcació.
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