Pirates robbed the crew of a Thai tanker at gunpoint in the Singapore Strait recently, marking the resumption of piracy after months of inactivity, reports The Bangkok Post.
Joint naval patrols had supposedly put a stop to this in the region's littoral states at least in the Singapore and Malacca Strait, the newspaper said.
The Patrawarin 2 was on passage from Rayong carrying 2,000 tonnes of A-1 jet fuel for Phuket when the six-man heavily armed gang boarded from a speedboat in the Straits of Malacca off Singapore.
The pirates threatened the five Thai crewmen at gunpoint, handcuffed them and robbed them of a total of baht600,000 (US$18,900) in cash and valuables.
The pirates spoke to the crew in English and communicated among themselves in Indonesian.
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