On August fourteen, the Indian Navy foiled a piracy attack when it rescued Iranian-flagged merchant vessel MV Nafis-1 off Mumbai. in step with 9 crew members, all foreigners, detained from the vessel, confirmed Indian security agencies’ assertion of ties between Pakistan and Somali pirates.
The crew members - 5 Yemenis, 2 Tanzanians, one Kenyan and one Somali national - were on August fifteen handed over to Porbandar police.
Besides automatic weapons and arms, Gujarat customs officers conjointly seized rice packets and juice pouches bearing names of Pakistani corporations.
The newspaper quoted Dipen Bhadran, Porbandar superintendant of police, as saying, “We are taking facilitate of foreign embassies to understand if those arrested have a criminal record. we've got 3 Arabic translators who are serving to us. The arrested have confessed that they're smugglers and operate in Arabic countries, and were lost in waters before they were intercepted by Indian forces.”
