On December 23, 2006 around 0300 hours in the morning, LTTE Sea Tiger cadres forcibly boarded a Jordanian merchant vessel MV FARAH III that was laying off the coast off Mullaittivu after developing engine trouble, by firing gun shots and then proceeded to forcibly detach the anchor, raid the ship and force the 25 member crew off the vessel. The foreign crew members were forcibly detained by the LTTE. (Full details of this act of se a piracy are found in the SCOPP Report dated December 26, 2006)
The ship was safely anchored at 09° 24’ N, 080° 52’ E (8.2 nautical miles NNE off Mullaittivu).When the LTTE set a drift the vessel by detaching the anchor the vessel drifted to a position close to one nautical mile off the coast at Mullaittivu. There after, the LTTE started looting the cargo of the vessel.
The photographs appended below illustrate in vivid detail the subsequent happenings to the stranded vessel.
Jordanian merchant vessel MV Farah III
MV Farah III laying one nautical mile off SearchThe Coast of Mullaittivu
Goods on Jordanian merchant vessel MV Farah III
LTTE Sea Tigers approaching the SearchJordanian merchant vessel Farah III
LTTE Opening stocks on the ship
LTTE looting Jordanian Vessel Farah III
LTTE Sea Tigers transporting stocks looted from
Jordanian merchant vessel Farah III
