Two tankers with 22 Indians on board hijacked by pirates off Yemen, Somalia

(Representative image): The pirates, suspected of being involved in a previous hijacking, reportedly steered the vessel towards Somalia's Nugaal coast.Two commercial vessels carrying 22 Indian crew members have been hijacked by armed pirates in separate incidents off Yemen and Somalia this week, with the sailors reported safe so far, according to a senior shipping ministry official. The Eritrea-flagged MT Sibu 1, carrying 16 Indians among 20 crew members, was seized in the Gulf of Aden on August 20, around 30 nautical miles off Yemen, while the Cameroon-flagged M/V LUTUF, with six Indians among its 10-member crew, was hijacked off Somalia's Puntland coast on August 17.The MT Sibu 1 was taken over by six armed pirates after an unauthorised vessel approached the tanker, while eight armed pir