Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Indian Navy's Warship INS Tabar Sinks Pirate Vessel Off Somali Coast

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 11:00pm CST
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ZeeNews.com brings us this news early Wednesday morning their time. It starts off like this... Within days of preventing the hijack of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank a pirate vessel off the Somali coast... According to reports, the Indian Navy acted definitively after a group of pirate vessels tried to encircle the Indian warship with the motive to attack it. After a brief exchange of light fire, the warship hit the pirate vessel leading to its sinking. The incident happened at around 9.45 pm Tuesday night. No casualities were reported from the Indian side...

Read this report in full at link below...
Indian Navy sinks pirate vessel off Somali coast
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File photo of Somali Pirates-USN

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