Visakhapatnam, June 20 (UNI) Indian Coast Guard personnel have apprehended five people who illegally boarded and trespassed into an offshore support ship off Kakinada coast Thursday evening.
The intruders are said to have come by a fishing boat and entered the support vessel MV GH Pathfinder some 2.5 nautical miles off the Vakalapudi Light House near Kakinada, allegedly in a robbery attempt, the Coast Guard said in a release here on Friday.
The support ship sailors sent a message seeking assistance from the Coast Guard station at Kakinada. The station immediately diverted its interceptor boat ICGS C-438, which was on a routine patrolling mission some 16 nautical miles off the Kakinada Port, towards the vessel MV GH Pathfinder.
On seeing the approaching Indian Coast Guard vessel, the intruders tried to flee by their fishing boat. However, ICGS C-438 boarding team managed to capture the intruders and brought them to the Coast Guard Station Kakinada and handed them to the Port Police Station, Kakinada for further action.
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