Puntland Forces Storm Hijacked Ship
June 03 2010
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...
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