Puntland Forces Storm Hijacked Ship

Troops from Somalia's Puntland semi-autonomous region stormed a hijacked Panama-flagged cargo vessel on Wednesday and freed the ship, reports Xinhua, China's state news agency.

Pirates killed the captain of the MV QSM Dubai during the resulting firefight, a maritime official said.

The cargo ship, with a crew of 24 Egyptian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Ghanaian nationals, was bound from Brazil to Somalia when hijacked in the Gulf of Aden. The vessel was carrying a cargo of...