{"id":49730,"date":"2024-03-24T02:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49730"},"modified":"2024-03-24T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:30:28","slug":"35-somalis-arrive-in-india-to-face-trial-over-ship-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49730","title":{"rendered":"35 Somalis arrive in India to face trial over ship hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India brought 35 accused Somali pirates to Mumbai on Saturday, days after they were apprehended when naval commandos recaptured a hijacked bulk carrier and rescued several hostages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The December hijacking of the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen was the first time since 2017 that any cargo vessel had been successfully boarded by Somali pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Indian commandos boarded and took control of the vessel on March 17 some 260 nautical miles (480 kilometres) off the coast of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The destroyer INS Kolkata, which led the rescue operation, arrived in Mumbai early on Saturday carrying all 35 men accused of the hijacking.<\/p>\n<p>A navy statement said the operation &#8220;upheld the principles of international law and commitment to ensuring safe seas and maritime security in the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>An AFP journalist at the scene saw each of the detained men handcuffed to a police officer and taken into police vans.<br \/>\nAll appeared to be in good spirits although some showed signs of slight injury including visible bandages.<\/p>\n<p>The group was expected to be brought before a magistrate later on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India brought 35 accused Somali pirates to Mumbai on Saturday, days after they were apprehended when naval commandos recaptured a hijacked bulk carrier and rescued several hostages. The December hijacking of the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen was the first time since 2017 that any cargo vessel had been successfully boarded by Somali pirates. Indian commandos boarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[894],"class_list":["post-49730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-35-somalis-arrive-in-india-to-face-trial-over-ship-hijacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}