In a statement made by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), it was stated that heavily armed people hijacked a commercial ship near the town of Eyl yesterday.
Authorities launched an investigation into the incident.
The Malta-flagged commercial ship "Ruen", which was hijacked on December 15 in the Arabian Sea, was hijacked by pirates. It was announced that the commercial ship with a crew of 18 people was in the region of Puntland state off the coast of Somalia.
Ahmed Yasin Salah, Minister of Ports and Combating Maritime Crimes in Somalia's Puntland state, announced that the ship was surrounded both at sea and on land.
On the Somali coast, where piracy incidents have not been seen for about 10 years, hijackings have started to occur again after the attacks of the Houthis in Yemen on commercial ships passing through the Red Sea.
