(LONDON) Pirates boarded a two-million-barrel oil tanker docked outside Iraq's largest export terminal in the Persian Gulf before being repulsed by the crew, the ship's operators said. It was the second incident in the past month.
The attackers boarded the Indian-flagged Prem Putli, owned by Mercator Lines Ltd, on Tuesday night as it waited to load oil at Iraq's Basra terminal, Atul J Agarwal, joint managing director of the Mumbai-based company, said. Nobody was injured in the incident, he said.
Robbers with AK-47 rifles on May 31 attacked the master of a tanker anchored outside Iraq's Basra Terminal, which exports most of the country's oil, and escaped with US$42,000.
The Prem Putli, a very large crude carrier, is leased to Indian Oil Corp, the country's biggest refiner. It was one of seven vessels waiting to load at the Basra facility. - Bloomberg
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