The European Union-affiliated Maritime Security Center confirmed that an Iranian fishing boat was hijacked by Somali pirates in waters adjacent to that country on Thursday, November 7.
According to the Fars news agency, this small ship called Azini had "23 crew members", two of whom were two Somali guards.
Since 1403, piracy cases in the eastern Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea have peaked again after about a decade.
Pirates, who often come from Somalia, have carried out ground attacks on commercial and fishing vessels many times since 2023, using the focus of Western navies to prevent the land attack by the Shiite Houthi group backed by the Islamic Republic.
🔸 According to the AFP news agency, quoting the announcement of the Center for Maritime Security of the European Union in the Indian Ocean, the ship Azini was stolen off the northeastern coast of Somalia. This ad was published on Saturday, October 31. This ship was hijacked off the coast of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland or Erez al-Bant. According to the security authorities of this country, "eight armed militant pirates" carried out a ground attack on the ship.