<p>Nafis-1, captured yesterday, was brought to Porbander in Gujarat and the nine men on board are being interrogated.<br /><br />"Various intelligence agencies including the naval intelligence are conducting a joint interrogation of the persons who were found on board," Porbander SP Dipen Bhadran told PTI.<br /><br />Defence spokesperson Manohar Nambiar said in Mumbai that the vessel, suspected to have been hijacked, had five Yemenis, two Tanzanians and a Kenyan and a Somalian on board. Upon search, two AK-47 rifles and a pistol were recovered from the ship.<br /><br />It was not yet clear whether all the nine men were the crew members, or all of them were pirates, or only some of them pirates and other crew-members.<br /><br />All of them had been detained, officials said. The 500-tonne general cargo vessel was detected on Friday, at a distance of about 250 nautical miles, by Indian Naval Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft 'IL 38 SD' which was on a surveillance mission in the East Arabian sea. <br /><br />Intelligence inputs suggested that the vessel had sailed from Chah Bahar in Iran for an unknown location in July.<br /><br />INS Mysore, a guided missile destroyer, was sent to intercept the vessel, along with two helicopters and 24 marine commandos (MARCOS).<br /><br />Despite adverse weather conditions and rough sea, INS Mysore launched a swift and co-ordinated operation and there was no resistance from anybody on the vessel, officials said.<br /><br />INS Mysore later towed the vessel to Porbander.<br /><br />In earlier incidents, Gujarat marine police in Junagadh and Jamnagar had captured 32 Somalian pirates in separate operations in June.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Nafis-1, captured yesterday, was brought to Porbander in Gujarat and the nine men on board are being interrogated.<br /><br />"Various intelligence agencies including the naval intelligence are conducting a joint interrogation of the persons who were found on board," Porbander SP Dipen Bhadran told PTI.<br /><br />Defence spokesperson Manohar Nambiar said in Mumbai that the vessel, suspected to have been hijacked, had five Yemenis, two Tanzanians and a Kenyan and a Somalian on board. Upon search, two AK-47 rifles and a pistol were recovered from the ship.<br /><br />It was not yet clear whether all the nine men were the crew members, or all of them were pirates, or only some of them pirates and other crew-members.<br /><br />All of them had been detained, officials said. The 500-tonne general cargo vessel was detected on Friday, at a distance of about 250 nautical miles, by Indian Naval Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft 'IL 38 SD' which was on a surveillance mission in the East Arabian sea. <br /><br />Intelligence inputs suggested that the vessel had sailed from Chah Bahar in Iran for an unknown location in July.<br /><br />INS Mysore, a guided missile destroyer, was sent to intercept the vessel, along with two helicopters and 24 marine commandos (MARCOS).<br /><br />Despite adverse weather conditions and rough sea, INS Mysore launched a swift and co-ordinated operation and there was no resistance from anybody on the vessel, officials said.<br /><br />INS Mysore later towed the vessel to Porbander.<br /><br />In earlier incidents, Gujarat marine police in Junagadh and Jamnagar had captured 32 Somalian pirates in separate operations in June.<br /><br /></p>