This picture shared by the Indian Navy on the X platform on March 16, 2024 shows people on board of the recaptured Maltese ship the MV Ruen, as an Indian Naval helicopter flies overhead. India’s Navy has recaptured the ship from Somali pirates off the Indian coast on March 16, 2024/AFPPix: India's navy recaptured a ship from Somali pirates off the Indian coast Saturday, the military said, rescuing the crew and ending a three-month takeover of the Maltese-flagged bulk carrier MV Ruen.
The Indian warship Kolkata “in the last 40 hours, through concerted actions successfully cornered and coerced all 35 Pirates to surrender & ensured safe evacuation of 17 crew members,“ the navy posted late Saturday.“The vessel opened fire on the warship, which is taking actions international law, in self-defence & to counter piracy, with minimal force necessary to neutralise the pirates’ threat to shipping and seafarers,“ they said.
The Indian navy has kept tabs on the MV Ruen since it was seized by Somali pirates 380 nautical miles east of the Yemeni island of Socotra in December. Pirate attacks off the Somali coast peaked in 2011 -- with gunmen launching attacks as far as 3,655 kilometres from the Somali coast in the Indian Ocean -- before falling off sharply in recent years.But December's attack followed a spike in armed seaborne attacks around the Horn of Africa not seen in years.
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