Speaking to the BBC, three Puntland security officials separately identified the ship seized on Friday as a tanker truck called the MT Asana. They added that he was captured by seven armed men who had left a remote area near the Puntland port city of Garacad before heading to the Gulf of Aden. The MT
Speaking to the BBC, three Puntland security officials separately identified the ship seized on Friday as a tanker truck called the MT Asana.
They added that he was captured by seven armed men who had left a remote area near the Puntland port city of Garacad before heading to the Gulf of Aden.
The MT Asana, sailing under the flag of Tanzania, was heading to the port of Bosaso in Puntland when it was boarded 65 nautical miles off Yemen.
While the Indian Ocean is heavily patrolled by the European Union Naval Force, which oversees anti-piracy operations in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden is less protected.
According to Puntland officials, this could explain why it has now become a zone of pirate operations.
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