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On March 17 2024 Indian naval commandos led a rescue operation taking back control over the vessel about 500 km off the coast of Somalia bringing the 35 Somali pirates to prosecution in Mumbai. [17] This resurface of piracy in the area is closely linked to the unaltered root causes [18] [19] [14] and the instability which the war creates in the ...
In January 2012, U.S. military forces freed an American and a Danish hostage after a gun battle with pirates during a night-time raid in Somalia. A SEAL team parachuted into the area, before moving on foot [60] where the hostages were being held, 12 miles north of the town of Adado. Nine pirates were killed. There were no U.S. casualties. [61]
The fishing boats MV Prantalay 11, 12, and 14 were captured approximately 1,900 km (1,200 mi) east of Somalia, near the Indian coast, the farthest yet Somali pirates have struck. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] All three ships were captured by, and used as supply ships for, the pirates.
The Dai Hong Dan incident took place on 29 October 2007, when the North Korean cargo vessel MV Dai Hong Dan (대홍단호) was attacked and temporarily seized by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean off Somalia. [3] The following day, the crew of the vessel overpowered the pirates with the support of a US naval vessel. [4] [5] [6]
Somali pirates captured Maran Centaurus some 800 nautical miles (1,500 km; 920 mi) east of Somalia. [131] The ship was carrying US$140 million in crude oil at the time of its capture. [ 132 ] The ship was released on 19 January after a ransom of between US$5,500,000 and $7,000,000 was paid.
After a gun battle, the pirates' attack skiffs retreated to the pirate mother ship with injuries to the suspected pirates. The German frigate Lübeck made contact with the mother ship later that day, determining it to be a hijacked Indian-registered dhow , and that the pirates were holding its crew hostage. [ 3 ]
Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151) is a multinational naval task force, set up in 2009 as a response to piracy attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off the eastern coast of Somalia. [1] Its mission is to disrupt piracy and armed robbery at sea and to engage with regional and other partners to build capacity and improve relevant capabilities in order ...
Pirates captured the Danish-owned Russian tugboat MV Svitzer Korsakov. The ship was held near the town of Eyl in Puntland. The American warship USS Carney shadowed the vessel preventing the pirates from resupplying until it was released along with its crew of six, on March 18, in exchange for a ransom of 700,000 dollars. [1]