The 7,301-dwt Orkim Harmony (built 2009) and its crew are currently on the way back to Kuantan in Malaysia on Friday.
Reportedly, the perpetrators managed to escape and the authorities were tracking their whereabouts, said the Singapore-based Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre.
On Thursday Malaysian authorities had said they were shadowing the vessel and were trying to persuade the hijackers to surrender.
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