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Mumbai: Thirty-five pirates, who surrendered after the Indian Navy rescued a foreign ship from the clutches of pirates following a 40-hour long operation in the Arabian Sea, were brought to Mumbai aboard INS Kolkata this morning. All these Somali pirates were handed over to the local police.
Last Friday, the Indian Navy's warship INS Kolkata, deployed to protect merchant ships in the Arabian Sea, learned that Somali pirates had attacked the Bulgarian cargo ship MV. Have captured. Pirates are advancing on Rouen.
As soon as information about this was received, two naval warships INS Kolkata and INS Subhadra were dispatched. First of all, a foreign ship was entered and with the help of a drone, information about the situation inside was obtained. After this, a Navy helicopter and an Air Force aircraft were sent and the Marcos Marine Commandos were landed in the sea along with two rubber boats.
Somali pirates started firing indiscriminately on the naval ship. But regardless of death, Marcos Marine Commando boarded the ship and immediately killed 35 armed pirates. After this, 17 crew members of the foreign ship held hostage since last December were released.
The President of Bulgaria and Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the performance of the Indian Navy as the largest and most daring anti-piracy operation conducted in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea during the last seven years.
35 pirates who surrendered were brought to Mumbai in the naval ship 'INS Kolkata'. The Somali pirates, who were handed over to the local police by the Navy after landing at the Naval Dockyard, will be prosecuted under the Anti-Maritime Piracy Act, 2022.
