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Seabourn Spirit, a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers, was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. [12] Riding in two small speedboats, the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades , but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device .
Somali pirates which captured MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and military hardware, accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and declared that the $8m ransom for the return of the ship will go towards cleaning up the waste. The ransom demand is a means of "reacting to the toxic waste that has been ...
The fishing boats MV Prantalay 11, 12, and 14 were captured approximately 1,900 km (1,200 mi) east of Somalia, near the Indian coast, the farthest yet Somali pirates have struck. [40] [41] All three ships were captured by, and used as supply ships for, the pirates.
British maritime security company Ambrey said the vessel had reached nine miles offshore from Bander Murcaayo in Puntland, Somalia on Dec. 17. Commercial ship still hijacked off Somali coast - sources
The incident took place about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. A group of Somali pirates boarded and captured the North Korean cargo ship Dai Hong Dan, originally launched at Chongjin in 1978. According to North Korean sources, the ship had unloaded its cargo in the Somali capital when seven armed pirates (disguised ...
A video shared on X claims to show a Somalian pirate boat being destroyed. Verdict: False The video shows training from the United States Navy and is not a Somalian vessel. Fact Check: A Chinese ...
(Reuters) -Twenty armed people have boarded a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia and have taken control of it, a maritime security firm said on Tuesday. The vessel is the latest to be targeted ...
Somali pirates captured Filitsa some 36 nautical miles (67 km) off Balhaf, Yemen. [128] The vessel was released on 1 February 2010, after the ship's owner, Order Shipping, paid an undisclosed amount of ransom money. [129] United States ( Denmark) MV Maersk Alabama (cargo ship) 21 (food) Attack repelled: 2009-11-18: unknown: Attack repelled ...