Pakistan Navy helicopter rescues 18 off Somalia

[RescueRanger]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy helped save lives of 18 Pakistanis after a large boat carrying cargo from Oman to Somalia sank at Caluula, off the north Somali coast, its spokesman Captain Mobeen Ashraf Bajwa told Dawn on Tuesday.

He said a seaborne helicopter was used to ferry the survivors to safety.

The survivors of the Pakistani-registered dhow, Al-Anwari, had initially been spotted by the USS Elrod which then alerted Pakistan Navy to the incident.

Capt Bajwa said that on the directives of Naval Chief Admiral Noman Bashir, the Commander of the Coalition Task Force (CTF) 150 tasked PNS Babur, deployed as part of counter-piracy operations in the area, to immediately render necessary assistance to the survivors.

Pakistan is currently commanding the CTF-150 based in Bahrain.

The spokesman said that navy personnel provided medical care and food to the survivors.

He said the survivors would be taken to Oman and sent to Pakistan by air after their condition stabilised.

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[Super Falcon]

well thank to ALLAh they have not hijackes our helicopter hahhahahahahahhahahaha

 

[rohailmalhi]

Excellent Job.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Shabash ! Bravo Zulu.

 

[Patriot]

Honestly Great Work by our government - Good work by PN .

 

[Rank]

Next time when they will try something like that again Pakistan Naval forces should go for massive strike from sea and air...! (lag pata jayega faer)

 

[WAQAS119]

Pakistan needs this heli for rescue operations.

 

[RescueRanger]

Pakistan needs this heli for rescue operations.

Well we have this:

 

[Devil Soul]

Well done boys

 

[muhammad asim aslam]

thnk God they r alive.

 

[Frankenstein]

Yeah show the world who we really are , but I guess world media dosnt like to show such stuff, they are more interested in terrorist

 

[TOPGUN]

Lives saved good news..

 

[WAQAS119]

Well we have this:

yet another good news.

 

[KAMDEV]

Yeah show the world who we really are , but I guess world media dosnt like to show such stuff, they are more interested in terrorist

This is duty of every nation.

 

[Chimgathar]

Salute to our boys