A products tanker carrying 4,000t of marine gas oil (MGO) has been recovered less than 24 hours after the ship was hijacked off Indonesia.

Local authorities are also reported to have apprehended nine suspected hijackers found aboard the 5,400-dwt Hai Soon 12 (built 1993).

Details of the hijacking were reported by Singapore-based the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre.

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