A Basque tuna boat attacked off the Seychelles
(BRUSSELS2) One would have thought the Seychelles, relatively spared, by the redoubled pirate attacks of recent days. These had, in fact, concentrated their attacks along the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts (1), on the one hand, in the Gulf of Aden and very east of the Indian Ocean (2), 'somewhere else. Nay! A Basque tuna boat, theElai Alai, thus thwarted, on Monday morning, an attack by two pirate skiffs about 200 miles west of Mahé, the main island of the Seychelles archipelago.
The ship, which belongs to the same group as the Alakrana (Etxebastar Fleet) captured last year, had left the Seychelles on Saturday with 30 crew on board, detected two skiffs launched in pursuit. The chase lasted an hour, and it took several warning shots from security guards aboard the ship for the pirates to break the field. No sailors were injured and the vessel left the fishing area. This is the second attack in a few weeks on a Spanish fishing boat, the previous one took place on October 17 against an auxiliary vessel from Albacora, Ortube Berria, caught under fire from a pirate attack.
(NGV)
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