22 Indian sailors are now hostages across two separate hijackings off Yemen and Somalia, marking a violent resurgence of Somali piracy after years of relative calm.
An Eritrea-flagged oil tanker, MT Sibu 1 with 16 Indians among 20 crew was seized by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden on August 20, just 30 nautical miles off the Yemeni coast.
A second Cameroon-flagged cargo ship carrying 6 Indians was hijacked off Somalia's Puntland coast on...