Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen coast taken toward Somalia, report says
Mohamed GabobeSunday May 3, 2026
Gulf of Aden (file photo)
An oil tanker has been seized by Somali pirates off Yemen’s coast, according to several Somali security officials who spoke to the BBC.
Yemen’s coastguard said earlier that the MT Eureka had been hijacked and was being taken toward Somalia. Security sources said the vessel was overpowered by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, close to the port of Qana.
The attackers are understood to have left a remote stretch of coastline near the seaside town of Qandala, on the Gulf of…