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Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really useless

Papsmearer

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Unfucking believeable. How can pirates repeatedly attack merchant vessels only 60 miles from SIngapore shores and in this case shot and killed a crewman? Its the same location of a previous attack. $12 billion defence budget, submarines, drones, surveillance aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft, stealth frigates, etc and they still have not even caught 1 single pirate. Not one. Not one a year, not even one a decade. U would think the SAF would step up patrols and surveillance.

A Vietnamese sailor died at a hospital in Singapore on Sunday after being shot by a group of pirates who hijacked his cargo boat off the island nation earlier the same day.

>> Police confirm piracy attack on Vietnam oil tanker, seek Interpol help

The victim was Tran Duc Dat, one of the 16 crewmembers of the VP Asphalt 2, which is owned by the Vietnam Petroleum Transport Joint Stock Company.

The hijacking occurred at 4:30 am on December 7 about 60 nautical miles off Singapore, when the ship was carrying 2,300 tons of liquid asphalt from Singapore to the southern province of Dong Nai, according to the Vietnam Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (Vietnam MRCC).

After tying the crewmembers up, the pirates searched their rooms and the cargo hold for an hour. They left the ship at 5:30 am.

After the hijackers left, several crewmembers found Dat, whose age has not been identified yet, lying in a coma in his room, with a bloody gunshot wound to his head.

The ship reported the case to the Vietnam MRCC, which provided instructions on giving first aid to Dat. The agency asked the Singaporean search and rescue forces to send a helicopter to the scene to take the victim ashore for emergency treatment.

The agency also notified the ship’s owner of the incident and asked it to coordinate with Singaporean authorities to handle the case.

At 9:40 am, Dat was taken to Singapore on a helicopter under the care of Singaporean doctors. He was then brought to a hospital but died at noon the same day due to his wound.

Meanwhile, the VP Asphalt 2 returned to Singapore to report to local authorities about the attack.

The Vietnam MRCC has asked the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Consular Department and the ship’s owner to work with Singaporean authorities to send Dat back to Vietnam and handle the incident.

The location where the ship was attacked is near the waters where another Vietnamese cargo ship, the Sunrise 689, owned by the Hai Phong Fishery Shipbuilding Joint Stock Company, was attacked on October 2, according to the Vietnam MRCC.

The Sunrise 689 was hijacked while carrying 5,226 tons of oil from Singapore’s Horizon Port to Cua Viet Port in the northern Vietnamese city of Quang Tri, the agency said.
 

Narong Wongwan

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Re: Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really use

SAF garang only for show.
Singapore navy only good to push refugees to open sea to die.
Easy exuse la.....international waters.....vile pappies say not my pasar.
 

Songkham

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Re: Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really use

60 miles away may not be within our jurisdiction, why bother?
 

chootchiew

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Re: Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really use

Comparing little india riots with sea pirates, if the saf navy is there, the results would be midshipmans found jumping into sea upon attack by pirates, performing maximum restraints :wink::p:biggrin:
 

Equalisation

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Re: Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really use

Comparing little india riots with sea pirates, if the saf navy is there, the results would be midshipmans found jumping into sea upon attack by pirates, performing maximum restraints :wink::p:biggrin:

Were sea-ambulance on stand-by ?:confused:
 

syed putra

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Re: Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really use

Looks like search and rescue only start work after 9am. before that, maybe union rules say cannot start work.
The pirates i think either got the wrong ship or the wrong info. asphalt is useless to sell quickly. maybe the captain gave them wrong info and they shot him to prevent leaks. normally one of ship crew go missing with pirate, the informer.
But informer can also come from cargo surveyor, terminal worker or operations guy who knows which ship loaded with what and going where.
Of course the last issue is the brains behind the piracy. All these will be impossible if a bunker boat does not come alongside to pump all the cargo out, and sell it to unsuspecting ships that bunker off singapore very quickly. these bunker ships owners should be scrutinise and their phone calls monitored. after all, singapore is the base to monitor neighbouring countries calls. so if they can do this, surely if they input key words, they can easily detect piracy in progress or at the planning stage.
 

blackmondy

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Re: Pirates attack cargo ship only 60 miles outside S'pore, kill crew. SAF really use

If those were Indian pirates, they would have overturned the cargo ship and set fire on it.
 
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