The Navy's stealth fri🍷gate INS Trishul today foiled a piracy attempt against an Indian bulk carrier in t✨he Gulf of Aden.
The piracy attempt was made on the Indian ship MV Jag Amar at 12:30 pm and the INS Trishul, which was on an anti- piracy deployment 𒉰in the region, responded immediately, Navy spokesperson Capt D K Sharma said.
He said all 26 Indian crew onboard the Indian ship ♈were safe.
The Navy's elite Maܫrcos commandos carried out a swift operation to rescue the 85,000-tonne bulk carrier.
Capt Sharma said an AK 47, one magazine with 27 rounds, grapnels, ropes, fuel drums and ladders were rec🦩overed during the operation.
Twelve pirates ✨on a skiff made the piracy attempt on the Ind🥀ian ship.
The Indian Navy has been actively engaged in ant🅰i-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, a key shipping route near the southern tip of the Red Sea between Somalia and Yemen.
Earlier this year, in April, Somalian pirates ♐had captured an Indian🍷 ship only to free them a week later.
Experts have warned that shipping companies have let down their guard aft♓er the piracy crisis reached its height five years ago.
Som꧑ali piratജes began attacking ships in 2005, disrupting a major shipping route in the Red Sea and costing the global economy billions of dollars.
At the peak 💫of the piracy crisis in January 2011, 32 boats and 736 hostages were held.
PTI
