MT Zafirah hijacking | |||||||
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Part of Piracy in the Strait of Malacca and Piracy in Indonesia | |||||||
![]() Cutter CSB 4034 of the Vietnam Marine Police (now became Vietnam Coast Guard) approached the suspected vessel. | |||||||
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1 tanker 11 pirates[6] | ||||||
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none | 11 captured[2][3] | ||||||
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On 18 November 2012, eleven Indonesian pirates hijacked MT Zafirah, a Malaysian tanker, in the South China Sea. The tanker crew was left by the pirates on a lifeboat in the sea two days after the hijacking but were subsequently rescued by Vietnamese fishing vessels on 21 November when their lifeboat was drifting around 118 nautical miles in the waters off Vietnam's southern Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province.[7] All the pirates managed to be tracked by Vietnam Coast Guard and Vietnam People's Navy with information provided by Malaysian based International Maritime Bureau and Singaporean based RECAAP, which led to their arrest after a brief of standoff near Vũng Tàu port.[note 1][8][9]
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