Private security onboard the Basque tuna trawler Intertuna III this morning have repelled anothe attack by Somali pirates while sailing through waters of the Indian Ocean, scaring off the pirates after a 45 minute firefight.
The attack occurred in the early hours of the morning, about four hundred miles from the Island of Mahé, the largest in the archipelago of the Seychelles.
The pursuit of the pirate skiffs after the tuna trawler, belonging to a company in Bermeo (Vizcaya), lasted about 45 minutes and during the exchange of fire no member of the crew was hurt.
Today was the seventh attack by pirates on Basque tune boats in the last two weeks. On the 13th the freezer tuna boat Albacan, belonging to the Albacora group, escaped another attempt by pirates when they was about 500 miles from the Seychelles Islands.
A month ago, the three security guards onboard the ship Ortube Berria, a support assistant boat to the Intertuna III, also had to repel an attempted attack by pirates in the Indian Ocean, about 700 miles off the coast of Somalia.
Source: TheReader.es
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