Pirates from Somalia hijacked Bunga Melati 5, a chemical tanker owned by Malaysian national carrier MISC on August 29 in the Gulf of Aden (off the cost of Yemen). Bunga Melati 5 is a second vessel of the Malaysian national carrier MISC seized by the pirates in the Gulf of Aden within 10 days. The hijacked ship had a crew of 36 Malaysians and 5 Filipinos on it and was carrying 30,000 metric tons of petrochemicals and on its way to Singapore from Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Previous week, Somalian bandits took hold of 4 ships within 48 days which housed 130 crew members on at least nine vessels from Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Nigeria and Iran. These subsequent incidents of hijackings have made waters off the Gulf of Aden the most unsafe and hazardous in the world.
01-Sep-08 
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