>After the initial flow of information, disinformation and rumors, the things seem to settle a little bit.
First of the early rumors that the on board pirates were unarmed seems to be wrong. I mean no one can be persuasive enough to talk the crew of a ship into capitulation.
Secondly the ship did not stoped yet and she is heading to Eyl. Turkish frigate TCG Gediz is closely following the victim. I understand the both ships are in visual contact.
The importance of the incident is the location it did happened.
The high jacking took place right in the middle of the west-bound lane of IRTC at (13 44N 050 43E). This might explain why the crew was not alert enough. They might thought that they were safe in IRTC.
According to experts, the helicopter of TCG Gediz arrived on the scene in approximately 15 minutes after Horizon-1 asked for help. That was a quite fast response. But it was too late. That indicates that the boarding was executed very swiftly by the pirates.
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