A SMALL Vietnamese 5,929-dwt product tanker the Sunrise 689, missing for seven days, was released by pirates last week after having fled with a cargo of gas oil.
The pirates had stormed the vessel and siphoned its gas oil cargo, said a crewman, reported London's Tanker Operator.
The first mate, surname Hoang, said the pirates were dozen men, who he thought were Indonesian, armed with guns and knives boarded the tanker from two speedboats shortly after the ship left Singapore for Vietnam on October 2.
He said the pirates destroyed the communication and navigation gear and put the 18 Vietnamese crewmen into a room. The pirates then siphoned off some of the gas oil into their vessels.
One crewman broke his leg when he fell trying to flee.
Mr Hoang said that when the crew were freed they found themselves 90 miles off Vietnam's southern tip.
The ship, carrying 5,000 tons of gas oil from Singapore, should have arrived in the central province of Quang Tri.
The seizure was the 12th such act piracy since April in southeast Asia, where tankers have been hijacked and then released after the cargo was stolen, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
PIRACY
14 October 2014 - 20:27
Pirates release Vietnamese tanker after siphoning off cargo of gas oil
A SMALL Vietnamese 5,929-dwt product tanker the Sunrise 689, missing for seven days, was released by pirates last week after having fled with a cargo of gas oil.
PIRACY
14 October 2014 - 20:27
Pirates release Vietnamese tanker after siphoning off cargo of gas oil
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