Live Piracy & Armed Robbery Report 2019
Live Piracy & Armed Robbery Report 2019
053-19
02-05-2019
Boarded
Pleasure Craft
Around 1.9nm ENE Of San Ignacio De Tupile
02.05.2019:Apprx 0730 UTC Posn: 09:16.40N – 078:07.45W, Around 1.9NM ENE of San Ignacio De Tupile, Panama
The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre received a distress call from a family on an anchored pleasure boat indicating that unknown persons had boarded the boat, shot and killed one person and injured the other. Two other family members were unharmed. The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) immediately informed the Panamanian Authorities who dispatched a patrol boat to the location to render assistance. The IMB PRC continued to liaise with the authorities and the family on the boat until the marine police boat arrived at location and rendered medical assistance.
The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre received a distress call from a family on an anchored pleasure boat indicating that unknown persons had boarded the boat, shot and killed one person and injured the other. Two other family members were unharmed. The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) immediately informed the Panamanian Authorities who dispatched a patrol boat to the location to render assistance. The IMB PRC continued to liaise with the authorities and the family on the boat until the marine police boat arrived at location and rendered medical assistance.