A Singapore-registered product tanker has been attacked in the
Malacca Strait.
The report comes from The
Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed
Robbery (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre (ISC).
The tanker, Joaquim, while
underway in the Malacca Strait was boarded by an unknown number of
perpetrators.
The ship was carrying 3,500
metric tons of fuel oil.
The ship went missing on
Saturday (Aug 8). Its last known position at 1.50pm was about 29
nautical miles north of Pulau Rupat.
The onboard Automatic
Identification System onboard the vessel was reportedly
turned off.
Malaysian and Indonesian
authorities deployed surface and air assets to search for the
vessel.
Early this morning, the
Joaquim was located 14.1nm off Tanjung Kling.
Initial reports say that 3,000
metric tons of fuel oil had been siphoned and power to the
generator was cut off.
The crew was safe except for
two of the crew who had been hit by the perpetrators.
- TNP