A cruise airliner left the pirates's pirates, on the board of which there were more than a thousand people

The cruise liner Nautica managed to escape from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said the anti-Pirate center of the International Maritime Bureau located in Malaysia. "There were 656 passengers and 399 crew members on board the vessel," said Noel Chung, the head of the anti -Pirate information center.

The Nautica cruise vessel was sent from Rome to Singapore with a call to large ports of Italy, Egypt, Oman, the UAE, India, Malaysia and Thailand. The liner was attacked last Sunday. The captain noticed two suspicious boats in time, began to maneuver and increased speed. The pirates managed to make several shots towards the ship, but could not penetrate his board. No one was injured.

The vessel company reported that Liner followed the Bay of the Gulf of Aden, patrolled by the naval forces of different countries.

This year, about 100 attempts to capture ships were committed near the Somali coast, of which 40 were successful for pirates. Currently, there are 15 ships in the hands of the bandits, including the Ukrainian Faina ship with tanks on board and the Saudi Sirius Star superman with a load of 2 million barrels of oil.