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The Indian Navy has
recovered what appears to be the burnt out wings of the loitering ammunition,
the person cited above said.
The MV Chem Pluto, a
chemical tanker carrying a 22-member crew of which 21 were Indians, flies under
the Liberian flag. It was heading from Saudi Arabia’s Al Jubail port to New
Mangalore when it was struck 217 nautical miles off India’s Gujarat coast. The ship was escorted to Mumbai by coast
guard patrol vessel Vikram on Monday25 Dec. A group of naval explosive experts
carried out an initial assessment that confirmed a drone attack.
Though Iran has dismissed
US allegations that Tehran was involved in targeting the MV Chem Pluto, the
first person cited above said that the
initial assessment of the debris by experts points the needle towards Iran, and
not towards the Houthi militia in South Yemen or other Iran-backed Shia groups
in Iraq such as the Kaitab Hezbollah.
As war rages in West Asia
between Israel and the Hamas leadership in Gaza, the situation in the Arabian
Sea and the Red Sea has become unstable with the targeting through drones and
ballistic missiles of commercial vessels with even a tenuous connection to
Israel.
These events have made the
commercial shipping mega-companies jittery, and some are exploring the
possibility of using the northern sea route off the coast of Russia for trade
to Japan and China. The other option to reach Europe is via the Cape of Good
Hope, but it is much longer and more expensive, adding to the cost of
transported goods.
The Indian Navy is playing its part in securing the shipping lanes from
missile while keeping Somali pirates at bay off the Gulf of Aden. At present, an Indian Navy guided missile
destroyer is near the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint in Red Sea, another is south of
the Yemeni island of Socotra, a third one off the Gulf of Oman, and the fourth
one in central Arabian Sea. As HT first reported on Tuesday, these ships – INS Kolkata, INS Kochi, INS Chennai and INS Mormugao –
have been deployed to protect commercial ships from missile-drone attacks in
West Asia.
