Coast guard detains suspicious North Korean ship in Andaman.Byline: ANI Portblair, Aug 7 (ANI): The Indian Coast Guard The Indian Coast Guard is the fourth service created to guard Republic of India's vast coastline. It was created on 18 August, 1978 as an independent entity as per the Coast Guard Act. detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: a suspicious North Korean ship with 39 crew members on board late on Friday in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. near Andaman and Nicobar Island. Sources said the ship MV Musen, had dropped anchor off Andaman and Nicobar coast without taking permission from Indian authorities. The officials of the Integrated Command and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) are investigating the ship and all its crewmembers. The Indian officials are facing difficulty in communicating with the crew because of the language problem, sources said. The ship, which had embarked on its journey from Thailand on July 27 with 1,600 tonnes of sugar to be shipped off to Iraq, stopped at Singapore without permission and then moved ahead without proper passport stamping A passport stamp is a rubber stamp inked impression received in one's passport upon entering or exiting a foreign country. Depending on your nationality, you may not receive a stamp, such as an EU citizen travelling to another EU country. done. On Friday helicopters of the Coast Guard identified the ship in Indian waters. The ship did not respond to the signals, following which the Coast Guard ships chased the Notrh Korean vessel and made it obey Obey can refer to:
Earlier, the ship dropped anchor at Hut Bay without any permission. Even the logbook of the vessel was found to be vague, sources said. Speaking to media Kripa Nautiyal, Deputy Inspector General of the Coast Guard, at Andaman said, "There is language problem which is delaying the investigations. The vessel may be short of documents that's why they tried to flee flee v. fled , flee·ing, flees v.intr. 1. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night. 2. the spot." "We are in touch with ship's agents in India and all people concerned with the vessel are being contacted. We are in possession of the ship and are still probing the ship," DIG Nautiyal added. North Korea has been accused of transporting nuclear components in the past as well to Pakistan and Iran. Recently, Myanmar also reported to be involved in its nuclear plans the situation has become more alarming. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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