Chennai, August 08: A suspicious North Korean Ship, who illegally entered the Indian Territory, was detained by the Coast Guard on Thursday.
The Ship MV Musen was detained after it dropped anchor off Hut Bay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands without giving any signal.
According to the sources, the cost guard officials opened fire in the air and after not getting any response they seized the North Korean ship carrying 16,500 tonnes of sugar.
Meanwhile, the officials of Army intelligence, Intelligence Bureau and other agencies are set to inspect the ship and interrogate its occupants.
K R Nautiyal, DIG, Coast Guard, Andaman and Nicobar Region, told reporters that initially several things were missing, the ship didn’t respond to our signal after it dropped the anchor illegally.
Later it declared that it was carrying 16,500 tonnes of sugar from Thailand to Umm Qasr in Iraq.
This is not the first time that North Korean ship has anchored without any permission. Last year a ship had been seized by Singapore.
—Agencies