Gulf of Aden News
The ship sent a distress call, which was received by the Indian Navy’s guided missile destroyer, INS Visakhapatnam, deployed in the region for anti-piracy operations.
Lamba assured the country that the Navy is keeping round-the-clock vigil on India's maritime domain.
The cyclone 'Sagar' over the Gulf of Aden moved further west-southwestwards during the past 24 hours and lay centered at 08:30 hrs IST of May 18, 2018 over Gulf of Aden near latitude 12.2 degrees North and longitude 46.3 degrees East; about 140 km east-southeast of Aden (Yemen) and 820 km west-southwest of Socotra Islands.
Cyclone Sagar is the first cyclonic storm of the season in Indian waters.
One AK-47 and one magazine with 27 rounds was reportedly recovered from the ship.
An Iranian naval flotilla will depart to Oman on Sunday and then will go to the north of the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
The navies of India and China last month had rescued a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden after it was hijacked by Somali pirates.
China on Monday denied any credit for the Indian Navy for rescuing a cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the strategic Gulf of Aden, claiming that its naval ship equipped with a helicopter saved the 19-member crew.
China on Monday claimed full credit for rescuing a cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the strategic Gulf of Aden, ignoring Indian Navy's role in the operation.
Barely a week after an Indian dhow with 11 crew members was hijacked by Somali pirates, Indian and Chinese navies joined hands to save a Tuvalu-flagged container ship with 19 Filipino crew members from a pirate attack late on Saturday night in the Gulf of Aden, an official said here on Sunday.
The Indian and Chinese navies rescued a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden after the vessel was hijacked by pirates.
At least six Yemeni soldiers were killed on Monday when suicide bombers tried to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two military checkpoints near the city of Mukalla
Over 58,000 children will starve to death in Somalia without urgent support, the United Nations warned Monday, amid severe drought in the impoverished and war-torn Horn of Africa country.
Indian Navy, which plays a crucial role in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia coast, on Wednesday said there has been no hijacking of any ship for the last two years.
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