Dateline 2013-11-08, Bangkok Post:
An oil tanker has become the second such vessel to be hijacked in Malaysian waters in four weeks, the International Maritime Bureau said on Friday, pointing to rising piracy in the region.
The Panamanian-flagged vessel was boarded on Thursday by 10 armed pirates, who emptied it of the oil it was carrying into another ship before disembarking.
In early October a Thai-flagged oil tanker went missing for two days after a hijacking before being released without its cargo.
The IMB said there had been an increase in the number of attacks on Malaysia’s coast recently but added it could not be sure if the two most recent attacks were by the same group.
“This is the third attack in two months, with the last two using the same modus operandi to steal the gas oil,” said Noel Choong, head of IMB’s Kuala Lumpur-based piracy reporting centre.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 