Pirates have seized on Tuesday of an Italian oil in the Indian Ocean after opening fire on the ship, reports the Italian navy. Gunfire aimed at the tanker causing no injuries, said a spokesman, adding that an Italian frigate that is in the region in the fight against piracy goes to the scene of the attack but it should bring about two days to cover the 500 nautical miles (900 kilometers) that separate it from there, said the navy.
Savina-Caylyn - ship 105 000 tonnes - was attacked this morning around 5 am 30 by five pirates, it seems, who were aboard a small boat. The attack occurred about 880 nautical miles from Somalia and 500 miles of India. At least five hijackers were involved in the collision. The tanker's crew comprises 17 Indians and five Italians.
The owner of the tanker, the Italian company Fratelli D'Amato, Naples, southern Italy, told the he was trying to verify all information from the region, not could neither confirm nor deny the capture of his ship. In Brussels, the spokesman of the European anti-piracy fleet Atalanta, Lieutenant-Colonel Paddy O'Kennedy, said that "the ship (...) was captured early this morning at about 600 nautical miles to the Socotra is "a Yemeni island," with five hijackers aboard a boat.
" "The tanker is currently heading west," that is to say towards the Somali coast, "he added. According to the Italian navy, the fact that the attack occurred as far away from land probably means that the boat was a pirate base in the area, a "mother ship" bigger from which it launched the attack. 
Savina-Caylyn - ship 105 000 tonnes - was attacked this morning around 5 am 30 by five pirates, it seems, who were aboard a small boat. The attack occurred about 880 nautical miles from Somalia and 500 miles of India. At least five hijackers were involved in the collision. The tanker's crew comprises 17 Indians and five Italians.
The owner of the tanker, the Italian company Fratelli D'Amato, Naples, southern Italy, told the he was trying to verify all information from the region, not could neither confirm nor deny the capture of his ship. In Brussels, the spokesman of the European anti-piracy fleet Atalanta, Lieutenant-Colonel Paddy O'Kennedy, said that "the ship (...) was captured early this morning at about 600 nautical miles to the Socotra is "a Yemeni island," with five hijackers aboard a boat.
" "The tanker is currently heading west," that is to say towards the Somali coast, "he added. According to the Italian navy, the fact that the attack occurred as far away from land probably means that the boat was a pirate base in the area, a "mother ship" bigger from which it launched the attack.
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