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Seabourn Spirit, a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers, was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. [12] Riding in two small speedboats, the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device. [13]
In January 2023, the "Indian Ocean High Risk Area" was removed, following no reported attacks by Somali pirates for several years. [12] Piracy resurged in the region during the early 2020s, [103] [104] with incidents of piracy and hijacking in the Somali basin continuing to increase. [105]
The pirates attacked the vessel which was anchored at the Kenyan harbor of Kiunga, 18 km (11 mi) from the Somali border. Three people of Somali origin came in a fast skiff during the night and boarded the ship, kidnapping the three Indian crew members and mysteriously leaving the Kenyan crew unharmed. [ 14 ]
According to the European Union’s naval force Operation Atalanta, which patrols nearby, there were 26 pirate attacks between 2013 and 2019 - and then not a single one from 2020 to 2022.
That year, there were 237 reported attacks in waters off Somalia. Somali piracy in the region at the time cost the world's economy some $7 billion — with $160 million paid out in ransoms ...
The Liberian flagged Moscow University was attacked by Somali pirates in two speedboats when some 500 nautical miles (930 km) off the coast of Somalia. The Udaloy -class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov was reported to be en route to the aid of the crew of Moscow University .
Score one for the good guys. U.S. Marines have reclaimed control of a commercial ship seized by pirates off the Somali coast -- the first such successful U.S. military boarding since the recent ...
On 12 October 2008, Somali security forces engaged in a shoot-out with the pirates, resulting in a death of a pirate and of a Somali soldier. [55] The security forces also captured two pirate speedboats. Two days later, Somali forces liberated the ship, and 10 hijackers were arrested. [56] Panama ( Greece) MV Action (chemical tanker) 20 (unknown)