| Follow up to this story from yesterday. |
[Regnum] On March 13, the EU naval mission Atalanta confirmed on the social network X a pirate attack on a ship sailing under the flag of Bangladesh off the coast of Somalia.
“Operation Atalanta confirms the incident of pirate attack on the Bangladeshi-flagged merchant ship Abdullah,” the statement said.
As reported by Regnum news agency, earlier the Indian The Business Standard wrote that in the Indian Ocean, pirates seized the MV Abdullah, sailing under the flag of Bangladesh. According to the publication, the ship, which carried 23 crew members, was captured by about 50 pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Earlier, at the end of January 2023, Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea hijacked the fishing trawler Lorenzo Putha-4 from Sri Lanka. According to the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources of Sri Lanka, pirates attacked the fishing vessel on January 27. There were six crew members on board the trawler.