JEDDAH: A Saudi cargo ship was rescued from Somali pirates by the Yemeni Coast Guard in the southern part of the Red Sea on Saturday, according to a statement by the Yemeni authorities yesterday.
“On receiving an SOS from the Saudi ship ‘Mumina’ at 3 p.m. on Saturday, coast guard boats rushed to a location 43 nautical miles off Raas Qaawa in the Gulf of Aden and found the ship surrounded by three Somali pirate boats. At the sight of the coast guard boats, the pirates fled.
“The coast guard accompanied the ship to the Shaqra region of Shabwa province from where it continued its voyage to Bahrain,” Shojauddin Al-Mahdi, head of marine operations in the Yemeni Coast Guard, said in statement posted on the online newspaper 26 September.
