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Faced with overwhelming force, the stowaways are said to have surrendered almost immediately. this was a very efficient operation. it only took nine minutes from the word go to the stowaways being rounded up and identified. and, of course, this reflects the training that both the fleet air arm crews and the sbs — the special boat service — undertake all the time. none of the 22 crew of the andromeda were injured in the incident. the seven stowaways have been detained. andy moore, bbc news. frank bough, one of the most familiar faces on bbc television for many years, has died at the age of ...

The first country in the west crushed by the pandemic is seeing a grim history repeating itself, and hopes it's not too late to turn the tide. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. a military operation onboard a tanker in the english channel has ended with the arrest of seven people. it's thought stowaways were causing problems on board the vessel, which had sailed from lagos in nigeria. the bbc‘s duncan kennedy has the latest. it really has been an extraordinary few hours ending with this special forces raid on a tanker in the solent behind me here. that raid involved four helicopters with teams of w...

What we do know is the ship comedy andromeda, sailed from nigeria some three weeks ago. it appears there we re three weeks ago. it appears there were a number of stowaways on board. crucially, we don't know what their motive is. it could be something as straightforward as seeking political asylu m straightforward as seeking political asylum in the uk or it could be something more sinister. but what is clear is at some stage, the crew became aware of these stowaways on board, felt to an extent threatened and therefore locked themselves up in the citadel. so primary concern has to be for the saf...

Duncan, we have this request for military support, what else can you tell us? well, lots of developments all day long. let me take you through it chronologically, starting with when the ship arrived in the solent. that was about 9am this morning. we have been told by sources that the crew knew there we re sources that the crew knew there were some stowaways on board. don't know how they knew how many there we re know how they knew how many there were but there were some stowaways on board. the ship had been sailing from lagos in nigeria to southampton behind me with a consignment of oil. at ar...

Whitehall saying the situation on the tanker is over. whether that is a peaceful resolution or whether the military of the special forces have been involved, we simply don't know. just to backtrack on the background to this, the andromeda had been en route from nigeria to southampton when this incident unfolded around about nine o'clock this morning, about nine o'clock this morning, about five miles off the coast of the isle of wight. the crew had known there were about seven stowaways on boa rd known there were about seven stowaways on board and for some reason around about nine o'clock these...