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An explosives-laden Pakistani trawler blew itself up in the early hours of 1 January 2015 after being intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard in the Arabian Sea about 365 km off Porbandar, Gujarat. It has been reported that the operations commenced after ‘actionable intelligence’ was received, around 0830 hours on 31 December 2014 with a Coast Guard Dornier aircraft flying to the location, detecting the boat and monitoring its activity for more than 16 hours by another two aircraft before a Coast Guard Ship, fortunately operating in the area, could reach the location by 2300 hrs
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