Information about new ship piracy off Somalia.

The British Maritime Safety Agency and the maritime safety company Ambrey they reported today Tuesday that “received reports of a ship with many people on board off Somalia who are now in control of it.”

THE British Maritime Safety Agency UKMTO he reported that the incident occurred 600 nautical miles away east of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

“Unauthorized persons they are now in control of the ship,” UKMTO said in a statement, adding that the people boarded the ship from a small and a large boat.

Ambrey said 20 gunmen were involved in the incident off Somalia who boarded a Bangladeshi-flagged dry cargo ship.

The ship was sailing to Hamriyah, United Arab Emiratesfrom Maputo, Mozambique, Ambrey said.

“There have been conflicting reports as to the whereabouts of the crew”Ambrey said in a statement.

If the event is confirmed as it is piracy attack, could trigger concerns on the re-emergence of Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Maritime security sources said in December that by their own assessment an attack that month was the first hijacking of a merchant ship by Somali pirates since 2017.

Hackers that wreaked havoc on major channels from 2008 to 2018 they may have returnedj, the sources warned, possibly prompted by a relaxation of security, or taking advantage of the chaos caused by attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthi rebelsbacked by Iran, amid the war in Gaza.