The Yemeni navy repelled a attack by Somali pirates on a Yemeni oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, a military spokesman said.
"Somali pirates on 14 boats tried to attack the oil tanker Yemen Oil 7 on its way from Aden to Hudeida" on the Red Sea, the spokesman said in the defence ministry's online newspaper 26sep.net.
"Navy forces immediately took on the boats, submitting them to a burst of fire which forced them to flee," he said.
The tanker, whose tonnage was not specified, was undamaged and continued its route towards Hudeida, a port city in northern Yemen, 420 kilometres (260 miles) from Aden, the spokesman said.
In April, the government said it had recaptured a Yemeni oil tanker a day after Somali pirates had seized it. Eleven pirates were caught.
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