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2022-11-22
101-22
Bulk Carrier
Mongla Outer Anchorage
21.11.2022: 1809 UTC: Posn: 21:27.5N – 089:35.9E, Mongla Outer Anchorage, Bangladesh.
About 18 robbers in two long wooden boats armed with long knives boarded an anchored bulk carrier using ropes. They took hostage the deck watchman on routine rounds, threatened him with a knife on the throat and tied him up. Alarm raised, pilot station and coast guard notified by VHF and all non-essential crew retreated into the citadel. The robbers broke into the paint locker, the bosun and forecastle stores and started stealing ship’s properties and stores. Three of the robbers approached the accommodation and using the deck watchman’s UHF radio contacted the Master and asked for a ransom. The Master offered a reduced amount which was rejected. The robbers told the Master that they would leave once they had taken the ship’s stores and properties. Later, the deck watch man was released and was found to have sustained minor injuries because of the knife being pressed on the neck and the hands being tied.
About 18 robbers in two long wooden boats armed with long knives boarded an anchored bulk carrier using ropes. They took hostage the deck watchman on routine rounds, threatened him with a knife on the throat and tied him up. Alarm raised, pilot station and coast guard notified by VHF and all non-essential crew retreated into the citadel. The robbers broke into the paint locker, the bosun and forecastle stores and started stealing ship’s properties and stores. Three of the robbers approached the accommodation and using the deck watchman’s UHF radio contacted the Master and asked for a ransom. The Master offered a reduced amount which was rejected. The robbers told the Master that they would leave once they had taken the ship’s stores and properties. Later, the deck watch man was released and was found to have sustained minor injuries because of the knife being pressed on the neck and the hands being tied.
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