NVDL: Now imagine if this banditry spreads to the busiest strait in the world neighboring Java (the Strait of Malacca). I've swum in the sea there and you cannot believe the amount of tanker traffic going through all the time. Singapore is filled with flotillas of ships ALL THE TIME.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) –
An Indian warship destroyed a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels despite a large international naval presence off their lawless country.
The buccaneers have taken a Thai fishing boat, a Greek bulk carrier and a Hong Kong-flagged ship heading to Iran since Saturday's spectacular capture of a Saudi supertanker carrying $100 million of oil, the biggest ship hijacked in history.
The explosion of piracy off Somalia this year has driven up insurance costs, made some shipping companies divert around South Africa and prompted an unprecedented military response from NATO, the European Union and others.
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