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about 18 years ago

Somalian pirates in daring attack on oil tanker

Heavily armed pirates on Monday attacked and damaged a huge oil tanker off the Somali coast using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, a Malaysian-based maritime watchdog said. Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre, said that the attack, believ

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Heavily armed pirates on Monday attacked and damaged a huge oil tanker off the Somali coast using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, a Malaysian-based maritime watchdog said.

Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre, said that the attack, believed to be by Somali pirates, took place under the cover of darkness at about 2.30am GMT in the Gulf of Aden.

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