UKMTO receives report of boarding incident off Somalia

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Breaking News A maritime policeman guarded an oil tanker after its release. Somali pirates have hijacked four ships in the past month.Credit...Abdiqani Hassan/Reuters

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday that it had received a report of a boarding incident 600 nautical miles east of Mogadishu, Somalia.

“Authorities are investigating. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO,” UKMTO said in a statement without providing further details.

From 2008 to 2012, there were hundreds of attacks, and the pirates, and their financiers made a fortune in ransoms. Countless pirates also drowned.

There was even one pirate organization called The Corporation that supposedly printed a guidebook outlining a pirate code of conduct.

Source: GO + Reuters 

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