French naval forces patrolling the northern Indian Ocean have seized a ship full of weapons.
They said that the ship was heading towards Somalia, according to BBC. Hundreds of assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank weapons were found.
They seized the weapons under a UN embargo to prevent arms from getting to Somali Islamist militants.
Earlier this month, the Australian navy intercepted a cache of arms on a fishing boat off Oman, also believed to be on its way to Somalia.
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BBC Monitoring’s Africa security correspondent, Tomi Oladipo, said that the French helicopter that spotted the ship was part of the multinational Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) that patrols the Indian Ocean.
