{"id":56900,"date":"2026-07-18T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/somali-pirates-blamed-for-seizure-of-second-tanker-in-three-months-near-yemen\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:38:31","slug":"somali-pirates-blamed-for-seizure-of-second-tanker-in-three-months-near-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/somali-pirates-blamed-for-seizure-of-second-tanker-in-three-months-near-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali pirates blamed for seizure of second tanker in three months near Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC, three Puntland security officials separately identified the craft hijacked on Friday as a tanker named MT Asana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added that it was seized by seven gunmen who had set off from a remote area near the Puntland port town of Garacad before making their way to the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MT Asana, sailing under a Tanzanian flag, was en route to the port of Bosaso in Puntland, when it was boarded  65 nautical miles off Yemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whereas the Indian Ocean is heavily patrolled by the European Union Naval Force, which oversees anti-piracy operations in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden is more lightly protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Puntland officials, this could explain why it has now become an area of operation for the pirates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c7vg6dml34vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the BBC, three Puntland security officials separately identified the craft hijacked on Friday as a tanker named MT Asana. They added that it was seized by seven gunmen who had set off from a remote area near the Puntland port town of Garacad before making their way to the Gulf of Aden. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56902,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56900\/revisions\/56902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}