Thursday, June 3, 2010
Puntland soldiers storm hijacked ship after pirates kill captain
Soldiers from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have stormed a Panama-flagged cargo vessel held by pirates, a Puntland minister has said.
The pirates, who refused to surrender, killed the captain of the ship, he said.
There was a brief shoot-out with the seven pirates before they were captured, he added.
The pirates seized the 15,000-tonne ship, MV QSM Dubai, in the Gulf of Aden in the early hours of Wednesday.
The vessel has a crew of 24 made up of Ghanaian, Egyptian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals, and was taking supplies to northern Somalia.
It was sailing from Brazil in the "internationally recommended transit corridor" in the gulf when it was seized.
-BBC News
For the full story: news.bbc.co.uk
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