{"id":37093,"date":"2024-01-05T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37093"},"modified":"2024-01-05T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:05:08","slug":"india-sends-navy-after-pirates-attack-ship-off-somali-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37093","title":{"rendered":"India sends navy after pirates attack ship off Somali coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>India has deployed its navy to aid the crew of a ship that was hijacked off Somalia&#8217;s coast.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessel has 15 Indian crew members onboard, Indian media reports say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crew <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UK_MTO\/status\/1742964450561318969?s=20\">sent a distress call to a UK marine agency<\/a>, saying that &#8220;five to six unauthorised armed persons&#8221; had boarded the ship east of the Somali port town of Eyl on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A patrol aircraft has &#8220;established contact with the vessel, ascertaining the safety of the crew,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1993347\">the navy says.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guided missile destroyer INS Chennai &#8220;is closing [in on] the vessel to render assistance&#8221; while a naval aircraft is monitoring the ship, the navy added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ship, which bears the Liberian flag, was en route to Bahrain before the hijacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crew had earlier told the United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency they were hiding in the vessel&#8217;s citadel, a secure compartment within a ship used for protection during emergencies or potential threats such as piracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent sporadic attacks on vessels off Somalia&#8217;s coast have triggered concerns that piracy could be making a resurgence in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pirate attacks, often launched from Eyl, were a huge problem for international shipping from 2008-2011, prompting countries from around the world to send warships to patrol the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: India has deployed its navy to aid the crew of a ship that was hijacked off Somalia&#8217;s coast. The vessel has 15 Indian crew members onboard, Indian media reports say. The crew sent a distress call to a UK marine agency, saying that &#8220;five to six unauthorised armed persons&#8221; had boarded the ship east of the Somali port town of Eyl on Thursday evening. A patrol aircraft has &#8220;established contact with the vessel, ascertaining the safety of the crew,&#8221; the navy says. The guided missile destroyer INS Chennai &#8220;is closing [in on] the vessel to render assistance&#8221; while&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37095,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093\/revisions\/37095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}