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Pirates attack ship with Indian crew in Gulf | A traditional wooden ship with Indian crew sailing from the United Arab Emirates toward Bahrain was targeted by the sea pirates in Persian Gulf waters on Friday
late night. The details of the attack started coming out only after three day.
According to sources the Bahraini dhow was intercepted on Friday night by another
ship with an armed crew. This was the first act of piracy reported inside the
Gulf since the issue of piracy came to the forefront of international attention
off the Somali coast in recent years. The four pirates threatened the six-man
Indian crew with guns and assaulted them before taking their cargo of fish and
mobile phones, sources added. The crew could not confirm the nationality of the
pirates. The Indian sailors were unharmed and were released near Bahraini port
on Sunday, sources said. In recent months Somali pirates had expanded their operations
beyond the Somali coast and the Gulf of Aden reaching areas as far as the east
coast of Oman and the Arabian Sea. According to the study of London-based International
Maritime Bureau (IMB), piracy attacks around the world were doubled in the first
six months of 2009. The IMB recorded 240 as compared to 114 reported in the same
period last year. In July the US Navy 5th Fleet Command in Bahrain warned against
increased pirate activity off the Somali coast when the monsoon season ends. The
fleet had established a combined task force with NATO and European Union forces
in January to counter the piracy activity in and around the Gulf of Aden, Red
Sea, Arabian Sea, and Somalia basin. Russia, China, and India also sent warships
to the area to help protect and convoy vessels.
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