SyuzhetyPiratstvo off Somali02.06.2009Pobyvavshy captive tanker was able to defend against pirates
The crew of a Libyan oil tanker otbilsya of pirates in the Gulf of Aden with the help of a water cannon, AFP reported on Monday, June 8.
The attack on the tanker "Aisha" (The Aisha) with a cargo of 144 thousand tons of oil occurred on Sunday, June 7. As the agency Tareq Yussef, a representative of the Libyan national maritime company, which is a tenant of the ship, the pirates podplyli by boat to the tanker, en route to China from the Sudan, and began firing into the air. Then the pirates demanded that the tanker stopped.
According to Yousif, the captain refused to obey the attackers, while protecting the pirates fired on a tanker of water cannon. Reported that the tanker had not received any damage. In the crew of "Aishy includes 21 persons, their nationality is not specified.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported on Monday, June 8, with reference to the Libyan media, that the captain of the tanker just ordered the "accelerate" the progress of the tanker, and that any firing of water cannons was not.
It reminds AFP, starting with 2009, Somali pirates tried to seize more than a hundred ships in the Gulf of Aden.
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