The release of the Iranian dhow: not without damage

(BRUXELLES2) If the US Navy communicated extensively on the operation to free the 13 Iranian fishermen last Thursday (January 5), it was more discreet about the fate of the pirates. And for good reason ; this operation did not happen without damage to the pirates. In fact of 15 pirates apprehended by US forces: 3 died, and 4 were injured. The 12 suspects (8 able-bodied, 4 injured) were, in fact, handed over (very quickly) by American forces in Yemen. It is up to him to convey them elsewhere. The Yemeni navy has just, as reported by the Somalia Report site, handed over the 12 suspects to the Puntland authorities and imprisoned in the central prison of Bossasso. The bodies of the three other pirates were also transferred, two of which were returned to their families. They had apparently attempted to retaliate against US forces, or at least had not immediately thrown their weapons overboard like the survivors, according to the testimony of a local pirate whose brother was among the suspects arrested by the US Navy.

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