"Indian Navy Thwarts Hijacking Attempt, Deploys Forces in Arabian Sea"
The Indian Navy successfully intercepted and boarded a hijacked Liberian-flagged vessel, the MV Lila Norfolk, in the Arabian Sea. The operation was launched after the ship, with at least 15 Indian crew members, was reported hijacked off the coast of Somalia. The navy's warship INS Chennai conducted "sanitisation" operations on the vessel. This incident comes amid a resurgence of piracy in the region, with naval focus shifting from the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, leading to increased naval surveillance by India in the Arabian Sea.