US EditionYemen says oil tanker hijacked off Shabwa coast, heads towards Somali waters
Yemen’s coastguard is working with international partners to recover the tanker, while officials say the crew’s fate remains unknown after the hijacking.
- On Saturday, armed assailants hijacked the oil tanker M/T Eureka off Yemen's southeastern Shabwa province and steered it toward the Gulf of Aden toward Somali waters. Yemen's Coast Guard is attempting to recover the vessel and crew, whose fate remains unknown.
- The Iran war has created a "window of opportunity" for piracy, according to European Union Naval Force officials; distracted patrols redirected to counter other threats have emboldened criminal groups to exploit security lapses.
- This attack marks the fourth successful hijacking in two weeks, occurring after Eureka was overrun at 5:00 AM; security officials from the Puntland region warn that "increasing movements" of armed groups are spreading across the Somali coast.
- The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations has raised the piracy threat level along the Somali coast to "substantial" and warned vessels to "transit with caution" through the Gulf of Aden.
- Piracy once cost the global economy as much as $18bn annually, with more than 200 attacks recorded in 2011 alone. Current incidents suggest this historical vulnerability is resurfacing as naval priorities shift toward other regional threats.
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Oil tanker hijacked off coast of Yemen ,taken towards Somalia
Sanaa, May 2 (SANA) The Yemeni Coast Guard announced on Saturday that the oil tanker “M/T Eureka” was hijacked off the coast of Shabwa province in southern Yemen and was subsequently escorted toward Somalia. According to a statement cited by AFP, the tanker was subjected to an armed robbery by unidentified assailants, who boarded and took control of it before heading toward the Gulf of Aden in the direction of Somali shores. The statement noted…
The shipping traffic in the Middle East makes most of all talk of itself through the closed road of Hormus. Piracy gets completely into the background. Until now. Now an oil tanker is captured. Who knows where it is taken, too.
Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen and were en route back to Somalia, marking the second piracy incident in 10 days.
Ship is now heading for Somalia on the Horn of Africa.
Outside the Yemeni coast, unknown people have hijacked an oil tanker. Yemen's coast guard reported that armed men would steer the ship towards Somalia.
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