A tanker crew has managed to deter an attempted hijack off Somalia in the latest in a growing list of piracy incidents.
On 22 April, six nautical miles off the coast, six armed men in a skiff chased and fired on the 7,000-dwt Costina (built 1984).
Spain's Larazon daily said the assault ship Galicia received a distress call from the vessel, citing the Spanish navy.
