Royal Navy and Royal Marines Commandos board a Somalian whaler suspected of being operated by pirates in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa. The Royal Navy has struck at the heart of Somali piracy operating in the Somali basin. RFA Fort Victoria was patrolling in an area approximately 420 nautical miles from the Seychelles and 350 nautical miles from the Somali coast as part of NATO’s combined task force 508. Early that morning, she received information that a Spanish fishing vessel operating to the north of their position had come under attack from a group of pirate vessels to the North of their position. The ship’s Lynx helicopter was quickly despatched to investigate. Once at the scene, the helicopter identified two suspect vessels, a whaler and a skiff, in the vicinity of the fishing vessel. The faster of the two, a skiff, sped away at over 25 knots as the helicopter gave chase. When the skiff ignored orders to stop, a specially trained sniper onboard the Lynx helicopter fired warning shots ahead of the fleeing vessel which stopped and the suspected pirates onboard were then transferred to Fort Victoria via boat. Fort Victoria’s Royal Marines boarding team then boarded the whaler and another skiff in the vicinity. As a result of the day’s action, a total of seven suspected pirates were detained onboard Fort Victoria along with their whaler as evidence, with no injuries being sustained by either side.

(AP)—Un forsa naval Europeo a detene seis supuesto pirata diabierna despues cu nan a los tiro riba un tanki di azeta biahando via e Golfo di Aden, manera oficialnan ta bisa, probablemente parti di un cantidad creciente di atake di pirateria biniendo for di Somalia.

E atake riba e barco Chrystal Arctic ta bin mientras rebeldenan Houthi di Yemen tambe ta atake barconan biahando via e ruta crucial aki, e Lama Cora y e Bab el-Mandeb Strait conectando nan. E asaltonan a retrasa trafico comercial via e ruta maritimo aki bayendo direccion di e Canal Suez y e Lama Mediteraneo.

E piratanan a los tiro riba e tanki for di un boto chikito “cargando arma y trapinan,” segun e centro Britanico di operacionnan di comercio maritimo (UKMTO), cual ta encarga di rutanan di carga den e area. E piratanan a los tiro prome na e Chrystal Arctic, di ken su equipo di seguridad arma a debolbi tiro riba nan, UKMTO a bisa.

Despues e piratanan a bandona nan esfuerso pa tuma e tanki over, cual a sigui riba su ruta cu tur miembro di tripulacion safe, e centro a bisa. Algun ora despues, e forsa naval di Union Europeo den e area conoci como Operation Atalanta a bisa cu un frigata operando den e region a detene seis supuesto pirata. E frigata a tuma accion contra e piratanan considerando “e condicion insigur riba nan esquife” y a bisa cu algun tabatin “heridanan di severidad varia.”

No ta inmediatamente claro di esnan herida a sufri di herida di tiro for di e intercambio arma cu e Chrystal Arctic. E forsa UE a nenga di elabora “debi na e seguridad di e operacionnan.”

E pirateria cu tabata dominante riba e costa di Somalia a reduci despues di e peak den 2011. E aña ey tabatin 137 atake reporta den e awanan cerca di e nacion. E tempo ey, pirateria den e area di Somali a costa e economia global 7 biyon dollar—cu 160 miyon paga den rescate, segun e grupo di monitoreo Oceans Beyond Piracy.

Un aumento den patruya naval, un gobierno centro na Mogadishu cu a ser fortaleci y otro esfuersonan a bira pirateria reduci. Sinembargo, preocupacionnan tocante atakenan nobo a crece durante e ultimo lunanan. Den e prome kwartaal di 2024, tabatin cinco incidente reporta den e region di Somalia, segun e International Maritime Bureau.

“E incidentenan aki tabata atribui na piratanan Somali cu ta demostra capacidadnan di montahe, atacando navenan for di distancianan grandi, for di e costa Somali,” e bureau a adverti den april. El a agrega cu tabatin “varios reportahe di dhow y barconan di pesca horta, cual ta barconan ideal pa lansa atake di distancia for di e liña costero di Somalia.”

Na maart, armada Indio a detene decenas di pirata cu a tuma over un barco di carga y a tuma su 17 miembro di tripulacion rehen. Den april, piratanan a libera 23 miembro di tripulacion di e barco di carga MV Abdullah despues di a tuma over e nave. E terminonan di e liberacion no ta conoci.

E atakenan aki ta bin mientras e campaña Houthi ta atacando barconan desde november como parti di su campaña di presion pa Israel stop cu e guera andante riba e Gaza.