Two fishing of Albacora tuna company in Bermeo (Vizcaya), have escaped Friday afternoon from two pirate skiffs in the Indian Ocean after private security guards on board repel the attack  shooting.

The attempted assault occurred, according to a Albacora spokesman explained  when auxiliary ships ‘Taraska’ and ‘Ortubé Berria’ in route to the Seychelles and have found that two boats approaching them occupied by pirates.

The private security guards on board fishing vessels have repelled the attack and the occurrence of the “regular exchange of gunfire” after which the pirates have abandoned, “according with the fishing company spokesman.

The fishing boats have left behind the pirate skiffs and continued heading to the Seychelles, no one has suffered damage, but with the understandable concern among the crew by these repeated attacks, according to the same source.

This is the second attempt of a pirate assault in the Indian on at least three days-the sixth so far this month against Basque fishing, after the tuna “Txori Toki, Inpesca company, fled on the 16th when  spot a small boat approached his position when he was fishing.

Another ship of the company albacore, tuna freezer ‘Intertuna II’, repelled the March 5, in a shooting attack by a group of Somali pirates.

In addition to this attack, two ships of the Spanish fleet operating in the Indian Ocean, the “Intertuna III” and “Artxanda” pirate ships fled after sighting.

The tuna ‘Albacar’, also of Basque company Albacore with a crew of 33 sailors and 3 security guards, escaped on March 4, an attack by pirates in the Indian Ocean more than 300 miles off the coast of Kenya, in which there was shooting and fishing was hit with a grenade, with no injuries.

Source: Elmundo.es