Indian Navy forces on Saturday, March 16 successfully seized a cargo vessel that had been hijacked by Somali pirates.
The navy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that they had successfully cornered and coerced all the 35 pirates to surrender.
The navy also says that they ensured the safe evacuation of all the 17 crew members from the pirate vessel without any injury.
“#INSKolkata had carried out the interception of the Pirate Ship Ruen almost 1400 nm (2600km) from the Indian Coast, and forced the pirate ship to stop through calibrated actions which were augmented by #INSSubhadra, HALE RPA, P8I maritime patrol aircraft & #MARCOS PRAHARs air-dropped by C-17 aircraft,” the Indian navy posted.
The cargo vessel has since been checked for any presence of illegal arms, ammunition and contraband. MV Ruen was hijacked last year.
The European Union Naval Forces last week said that MV Ruen may have been involved in another hijacking of the Bangladesh-flagged Bulk carrier merchant vessel ABDULLAH.
