[28/August/2009]

ADEN, Aug. 28 (Saba)- The Yemeni Coastguards police have said a U.S. warship thwarted on Thursday a piracy attempt against a merchant vessel called (thorncross) in the Gulf of Aden.

The media center of Yemen's Interior Ministry quoted the police as saying that the Yemen Coastguards had received a distress call from a security protection team of the vessel that Somali pirates were approaching the ship in a skiff as it was 47 nautical miles off Yemeni coasts.

"A U.S. warship of international counterpiracy navies was patrolling the seas in the Gulf of Aden prevented the piracy attempt but the pirates could escape", added the police.

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Saba