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 report

An Eritrea-flagged oil products tanker, M T Sibu 1, with 20 crew members including 16 Indians, was hijacked by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden, around 30 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen on August 20, the official said

The ship was carrying weapons bound for a Turkish military training facility in Mogadishu, as well as communications and satellite equipment.

Tanker off Yemen boarded by armed people, diverted towards Somalia, UKMTO says A tanker was boarded by six armed people who took control of the vessel and diverted it towards Somalia, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Thursday. UKMTO earlier said it had received a report of an incident