 "Indian Navy corners pirates, succesfully rescues 17 crew members onboard cargo ship")
The Indian Navy, after a painstaking 40-hour-long operation, successfully rescued the 17 crew members of a Maltese-flagged merchant vessel on Saturday.
In a statement, the Navy said that it cornered and coerced all 35 Pirates to surrender while ensuring the safe evacuation of all the crew members of MV Ruen.
On Friday, the pirates opened fire on the Indian warship, which took appropriate actions in self-defence as per international law and to counter piracy and used minimal force to neutralise the pirates’ threat to shipping and seafarers.
How was the operation carried out?
INS Kolkata carried out the interception of the Pirate Ship Ruen almost 1400 nautical miles (2600km) from the Indian Coast.
#INSKolkata, in the last 40 hours, through concerted actions successfully cornered and coerced all 35 Pirates to surrender & ensured safe evacuation of 17 crew members in the evening today #16Mar 24 from the pirate vessel without any injury.#INSKolkata had carried out the… https://t.co/eKxfEdMRES pic.twitter.com/tmQq2fG8yE
— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) March 16, 2024
Indian Navy commandos forced the pirate ship to stop through calibrated actions which were augmented by INS Subhadra, HALE RPA, P8I maritime patrol aircraft & MARCOS PRAHARs air-dropped by C-17 aircraft.
The vessel has also been sanitised for the presence of illegal arms, ammunition and contraband.
Who was onboard MV Ruen?
As many as 17 crew members are reportedly being held hostage by Somali pirates while one person has been released on medical grounds.
Impact Shorts
More ShortsPeople familiar with the situation told CNN-News18 that members are currently marked safe based on information provided by the crew onboard.
The crew consists of citizens from Angola, Myanmar and Bermuda.
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