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.
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.