Again,
Indian Navy has rescued a fishing boat hijacked by the pirates, demonstrating
its humanitarian commitment. It intensely fought the pirates for about 12 hours
and achieved the result of rescuing the crew and the seized dhow.
This
incident comes just two days after the Maritime Security Center for the Horn of
Africa reiterated its warning for the waters around Socotra.
On
Wednesday,27 Mar, they warned that they still believed four pirate action
groups were active in the region
“The
possibility of attacks in the Gulf of Aden cannot be dismissed,” they wrote in
the March 27 warning. “Although there have been no piracy-related incidents in
the past seven days, ATALANTA continues to assess the threat as Moderate (where
an attack is a realistic possibility) off the Somali coasts
actions,
they report they were able to convince
the pirates to surrender. Indian Navy specialist teams are presently
undertaking thorough “sanitization and seaworthiness checks” of the fishing
vessel. They plan to escort the boat to a safe area so that it can resume its
normal fishing activities.
. In the
first 100 days of its latest mission, the Indian Navy reports it has responded
to 18 incidents and has played a pivotal role as the “First Responder” for
critical situations in the Indian Ocean.