Seven Somali fishermen, who had been attacked by pirates following which their fiber boat was adrift in the high seas for over a week, were rescued by the Indian Coast Guard off Gujarat coast. This was the third such mission carried out by the coast guard vessels between July 1 and 3. <br/><br/>Earlier, they escorted an Indian merchant vessel which witnessed a mutiny by the crew that detained the captain when the ship was sailing towards Paradip in Orissa in the Bay of Bengal and rescued 11 crew members of a Taiwanese vessel that sank following a fire on board off Andaman and Nicobar Islands. <br/><br/>According to Coast Guard officials, the Somali fishermen were fishing at high sea on May 24 when they were attacked by Somali pirates, who manhandled two crew members and damaged the boat inboard engine.