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| An oil tanker belonging to the United Arab Emirates was hijacked by Somalia’s Puntland pirates off the coast of Yemen | |
| 2026-05-03 | |
Text: An oil tanker belonging to the United Arab Emirates was hijacked by Somalia’s Puntland pirates off the coast of Yemen today, but the pirates took the ship to the coast of the eastern region of Puntland, the Puntland Pirates are holding hijacked 2 more ships in Puntland Somali pirates have seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen, in a dramatic escalation of maritime insecurity in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors, according to multiple Somali security officials. More from regnum.ru Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited Yemen's coastguard has found a tanker seized off the country's coast. The Yemeni Coast Guard has located the oil tanker M/T EUREKA, which was hijacked off the country's coast. The agency's press service reported this on May 2. As part of the search and rescue operation to locate the tanker, two patrol boats were dispatched from Aden, as well as small patrol boats from Shabwa. In addition, cooperation was established with international partners and local authorities in the Gulf of Aden. Thanks to the Coast Guard's prompt action, the vessel's precise coordinates were determined. Efforts are currently underway to recover it. Earlier, armed men hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. The pirates boarded the vessel, seized it, and headed for the Gulf of Aden, heading toward Somalia. The Gulf of Aden separates Yemen from Somalia. The portion of Yemen located near the gulf is partially controlled by the Houthis. The waters near Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden have historically been considered among the most dangerous in the world due to high levels of piracy.
According to the website Marine Traffic, the EUREKA is a Togolese-flagged oil products tanker that was reported to have been in the UAE port of Fujairah in late March. Piracy was rampant off the coast of Somalia in the 2000s, peaking in 2011 with hundreds of attacks, but was significantly reduced by international naval deployments and new tactics by commercial shipping. But in recent weeks attacks have increased again, according to a report by the European Union naval mission deployed off the shores of the troubled east African country. Operation Atalanta, the EU’s naval force for Somalia, monitored three attacks in late April, according to its information service, the Maritime Security Centre Indian Ocean (MSCIO). Since February 28, shipping in the region has also been disrupted by the US-Israeli war against Iran, but there is no immediate indication that today’s hijacking is linked to the conflict.
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