A French warship from the European Union anti-piracy mission deployed in the Gulf of Aden has captured eleven Somali pirates of the coast of Kenya, said French officials and media reports on Wednesday.
French Defense Ministry said in a statement that its warship Nivose captured the eleven pirates following an assault on a pirate "mother ship" about 550 miles (900km) east of the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Wednesday. The ministry statement added that a pirate attack on a Liberian-registered vessel was also foiled.
Nivose is part of the EU anti-piracy mission deployed off the coast of Somalia to combat the escalating piracy in the region. The increasing pirate attacks off the Somali coast had prompted several countries, including EU member states, NATO members, India, China and Russia, to deploy their naval vessels in the region to protect cargo and cruise ships against piracy.
However, the pirate attacks off the Somali coast have escalated in the recent weeks despite the presence of some 20 warships, deployed by navies of the NATO, the European Union, Russia, China, and India, in the region to protect cargo and cruise ships against piracy.
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