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Indian navy rescues Chinese sailors
Indian Navy averted a pirate attack on a Chinese merchant vessel sailing in the Arabian sea by sending its maritime reconnaissance aircraft that forced the sea brigands to abandon the ship and flee, officials said today (May 6). According to Navy officials, at about 08:45 hrs yesterday, authorities received a distress call about a pirate attack on Chinese cargo vessel 'MV Full City', sailing about 450 nautical miles west of Karwar in Karnataka. Over 20 Chinese crew members in the vessel locked themselves in safe rooms of the ship.
The Navy, that was also co-ordinating with NATO counter-piracy task force, the Chinese task force and the maritime rescue co-ordination centre at Beijing, immediately diverted its TU 142 aircraft, which was on an anti-piracy patrol, and a Coast Guard ship towards the vessel. The aircraft reached the vessel in less than 30 minutes and found a pirate mother ship next to the vessel and an empty skiff used by the brigands, believed to be from Somalia, a Coast Guard official said.
"The aircraft made a number of low passes over the ship and sternly asked the pirates through radio to leave the ship immediately," said Defence spokesman Captain M Nambiar. The warning had the desired effect and the skiff fled from the Chinese vessel along with the pirates and headed for its mother ship nearby, Nambiar said.
As there were no surface forces in the immediate vicinity to board the ship and sanitise it, the aircraft maintained a vigil for over three hours, he added. The vessel later continued its passage through the waters of the Arabian Sea. Navy and Coast Guard had, in the past few months, prevented a number of attacks on ships by pirates in the Arabian Sea and apprehended over 100 brigands, mostly Somalians, and handed them over to Mumbai Police.
"With independent as well as collaborative efforts the Indian maritime forces have reduced the threat of piracy in the Arabian Sea in general and the Eastern Arabian Sea in particular," Nambiar said. "There has been a drop of over 80 per cent in the number of pirate attacks in the Eastern Arabian Sea. In April, not a single attack was reported in the Eastern Arabian Sea," he added.
http://www.timesnow.tv/Indian-navy-rescues-Chinese-sailors/articleshow/4372514.cms
good job IN
Indian Navy averted a pirate attack on a Chinese merchant vessel sailing in the Arabian sea by sending its maritime reconnaissance aircraft that forced the sea brigands to abandon the ship and flee, officials said today (May 6). According to Navy officials, at about 08:45 hrs yesterday, authorities received a distress call about a pirate attack on Chinese cargo vessel 'MV Full City', sailing about 450 nautical miles west of Karwar in Karnataka. Over 20 Chinese crew members in the vessel locked themselves in safe rooms of the ship.
The Navy, that was also co-ordinating with NATO counter-piracy task force, the Chinese task force and the maritime rescue co-ordination centre at Beijing, immediately diverted its TU 142 aircraft, which was on an anti-piracy patrol, and a Coast Guard ship towards the vessel. The aircraft reached the vessel in less than 30 minutes and found a pirate mother ship next to the vessel and an empty skiff used by the brigands, believed to be from Somalia, a Coast Guard official said.
"The aircraft made a number of low passes over the ship and sternly asked the pirates through radio to leave the ship immediately," said Defence spokesman Captain M Nambiar. The warning had the desired effect and the skiff fled from the Chinese vessel along with the pirates and headed for its mother ship nearby, Nambiar said.
As there were no surface forces in the immediate vicinity to board the ship and sanitise it, the aircraft maintained a vigil for over three hours, he added. The vessel later continued its passage through the waters of the Arabian Sea. Navy and Coast Guard had, in the past few months, prevented a number of attacks on ships by pirates in the Arabian Sea and apprehended over 100 brigands, mostly Somalians, and handed them over to Mumbai Police.
"With independent as well as collaborative efforts the Indian maritime forces have reduced the threat of piracy in the Arabian Sea in general and the Eastern Arabian Sea in particular," Nambiar said. "There has been a drop of over 80 per cent in the number of pirate attacks in the Eastern Arabian Sea. In April, not a single attack was reported in the Eastern Arabian Sea," he added.
http://www.timesnow.tv/Indian-navy-rescues-Chinese-sailors/articleshow/4372514.cms
good job IN
