Penal Prosecution in Aden has begun investigations with six Somali pirates on charges of pricy and attempt to kidnap a Yemeni boat.

Judicial source told the state-run 26sep.net that the Prosecution has
received files of seven Somalis accused of piracy, one of them is still
at large.

The sources pointed out that the Yemeni coastguards had been arrested
the Somali pirates off Ras al-Ara coast, along with 3 RPGs and four gun
machines.

Last November, Yemen has arrested six Somali pirates on a boat off Aden.

The Interior ministry has said the items seized with the Africans
included machine guns, RPGs and other missiles with ammunition.

In October, nine Somali pirates were caught off Yemen’s western province of Taiz with weapons.

Early in October, 12 Somalis appeared in court in Yemen facing piracy charges.

The Somalis were seized in February when marine troops recovered a
Yemeni oil tanker earlier seized in the pirate-plagued Gulf of Aden.

In addition to piracy and human trafficking they have admitted, they
also faced charges related to the murder of one of the tanker’s crew
members and causing another to go missing as well as forcible robbery.

Three pirates were killed in the release operation and 12 others arrested.

In recent years, piracy has soared off Somalia sparking regional and
international concerns over threats to one of the world’s busiest
waterways where about 20.000 vessels pass a year.

In response, many countries dispatched anti-pirate missions into the region, which are now patrolling the Arabian and Red Seas.

Source: Saba

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