India. Pirate 'mothership' was fishing boat

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The pirate "mothership" destroyed by the Indian navy in the Gulf of Aden was a hijacked Thai fishing boat and its crew was tied up below decks. The vessel, which was sunk by INS Tabar, an Indian frigate, on the night of Nov. 18, was the Ekawat Nava 5, a deep-sea trawler, rather than a floating pirate armoury loaded with supplies of ammunition and explosives, as India had claimed. Wicharn Sirichaiekawat, the manager of the Bangkok-based Sirichai Fisheries, the ship's owner, said the facts emerged when one of his crew was found alive, adrift in the Indian Ocean. He said 14 others were still missing and at least one was confirmed dead.