Somali pirates' try to seize trade vessel aborted
The Source: SANA'A/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 28/06/2010
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A security team of Navy has thwarted a piracy attempt to seize a merchant vessel off the Yemeni Island of Meon, the Interior Ministry reported on Monday.
The coastguard police in the Gulf of Aden that the Somali pirates attacked a trade ship from four boats trying to trap the ship and force it to surrender.The security team charged with protecting the ship engaged with the pirates and defended the ship, forcing the pirates to flee without any causality in the security team or the ship's crew, the police explained.The merchant vessel continued safely in its ceiling towards the port of Hodeidah, the police added.It is worth to be noted that a security team from the coastguard has frustrated over the last few days a piracy attempt by Somali pirates to seize a yacht at the Strait of Bab al-Mandab while the yacht was on its way to the port of Salif, in Hodeidah province.
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