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2024-05-10
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Product Tanker
Gulf of Aden
10.05.2024: 0457 UTC: Posn: 12:38.65N - 048:24.06E, Gulf of Aden.
Around five to six pirates dressed in black clothes armed with AK-47 and RPG in a skiff approached a product tanker underway. Grapnel hook and ladder sighted. Master sounded ship’s horn and altered course. As the skiff continued to approach the armed guards showed their weapons. The pirates opened fire towards tanker and the armed team retaliated by firing four rounds causing a fire to break out on the boat. The tanker continued its voyage.
Around five to six pirates dressed in black clothes armed with AK-47 and RPG in a skiff approached a product tanker underway. Grapnel hook and ladder sighted. Master sounded ship’s horn and altered course. As the skiff continued to approach the armed guards showed their weapons. The pirates opened fire towards tanker and the armed team retaliated by firing four rounds causing a fire to break out on the boat. The tanker continued its voyage.
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2024-05-10