First attack of the year off Socotra
(B2) Somali pirates carried out their first (recorded) attack of the year late Friday (January 17) in the Arabian Sea. The first of the year. A tanker - the Nave Atropos flying the flag of the Mashall Islands - was pursued by two skiffs accompanied by a mother boat between the island of Socotra (Yemen) and the coasts of Oman (at 15° North and 54° East) about forty miles from Oman . Exchanges of fire took place between the pirates and the security guards on board the ship “ who responded to the pirates' fire - according to the General Staff of the French army - and made them flee. The ship was able to escape its pursuers.
(Updated Sun 19.01 and 21.01) The hackers have been arrested, read: First arrest of pirates in the Gulf of Aden
