Pirates off the coast of Somalia have seized a Ukrainian ship carrying more than 30 tanks.
The vessel, whose exact whereabouts is unknown, had been heading for the Kenyan port of Mombasa with a crew of 17 Ukrainian nationals, three Russians and one Latvian when it was boarded by pirates on Thursday. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called an emergency meeting of the country's National Security Council to discuss Ukraine PM quizzed over poisoning ...
Lower foreign tourist numbers reported by 4 regions in H1--CSU ... means of locating and freeing the sailors. Piracy is rife off the lawless Somali coast. Armed groups operating in the region currently hold over a dozen ships and around 200 crew members captive.
(Deutsche Welle)
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