The end of the monsoon season is likely to bring a surge in attempted hijackings by Somalia-based pirates who are pushing deeper into the Indian Ocean to seize merchant vessels, military analysts suggest.rnThe international task forces covering the nearly two-million-square-mile Gulf of Aden and Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) have said that they are ready to respond to the likely increase in pirate attacks, deploying new deterrence methods and increasing the aerial surveillance of the area.
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