Ahmad 
The Indian navy says a special force has boarded the cargo ship Lela Norfolk in the Arabian Sea after making a distress call over an attempted hijacking.
Indian forces said they had rescued 21 people, the crew members of the vessel.
“All crew members, including 15 Indians, who were on board the vessel, were safely evacuated,” the navy said in a statement.
The Indian navy announced on Friday (December 5th) that a special force of its own boarded a hijacked Liberian-flagged ship.
In its latest statement on the incident, Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations Authority said no military force had found any authorised persons on board and that all crew members were safe and in position, adding that “the ship is on its way out of the area.”
The Indian Navy has affirmed its commitment to ensuring the safety of commercial navigation in the region in cooperation with international partners and friendly foreign countries, and last December deployed several ships to the region for this purpose.
The Piracy Centre of the Office of International Maritime Affairs said that although piracy off the coast of Somalia decreased after the European Union launched Operation Atlanta in 2008, pirates seized a tanker on Dec. 14 and directed it to Somalia.