{"id":552837,"date":"2025-11-06T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552837\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:04:12","slug":"verifying-image-of-fireball-at-russian-power-plant-450-miles-from-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552837\/","title":{"rendered":"Verifying image of fireball at Russian power plant 450 miles from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanker reportedly hijacked hundreds of miles off Somali coastpublished at 11:23 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:23 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Joshua Cheetham<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re investigating reports that a Malta-flagged tanker has been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maritime security firm Vanguard says the Hellas Aphrodite came under fire from people aboard an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel. Another firm, Ambrey Intelligence, says the fuel ship was boarded by attackers around 628 miles (1,010km) from Somalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vanguard says the fishing vessel, registered as \u201c314055ISSAMOHAHMDI\u201d, has been involved in three other recent incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency has confirmed an \u201cillegal boarding\u201d has taken place in the area, with a vessel coming under attack by \u201csmall arms and RPGs\u201d. But it has not confirmed any more details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve contacted the owner of the Hellas Aphrodite for information. According to vessel-tracking website MarineTraffic, the ship is travelling from Sikka in India to the South African port of Durban. Its last location was received by the platform at 08:13 GMT, several hundred miles east of Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanker reportedly hijacked hundreds of miles off Somali coastpublished at 11:23 GMT 11:23 GMT Joshua CheethamBBC Verify journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-552837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115502663152345137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}