Hogai Goggly :Somali Pirates Attack Wrong Ship

Somali Pirates are new menace in Oceans. They are striking at many ships in India ocean. They target commercial vehicles and take hostages. Millions of dollars are taken away by these somali pirates.

Somali pirates attempted another such attempt. It was night and in darkness somali pirates sighted a ship. They had their target at sight and they attacked the ship. Lekin is baar ho gai googly. The ship was not commercial vehicle but french navy ship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two lightweight skiffs and captured five pirates, a spokesman said.

"The pirates, who because of the darkness took the French ship for a commercial vessel, were on board two vessels and opened fire with Kalashnikovs," Admiral Christophe Prazuck said in Paris.

La Somme is the French command vessel in the Indian Ocean, overseeing French air, sea and land forces fighting Somali pirates and hunting terrorists under the banner of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom.

Officers on the ship have directed commando operations to free French hostages in the hands of Somali pirates.

The pirates tried to flee when they realised their mistake but were pursued by French forces who, after an hour-long chase, caught one of the skiffs, Prazuck said.

On it they found five men but no weapons, water or food as the pirates had apparently thrown all of the boat's contents overboard, the spokesman said.