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Somali pirates hit Maersk-Alabama for second time

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Security guards onboard the Maersk-Alabama container ship fended off Somali pirates in a shoot-out Wednesday, months after a previous raid ended with the dramatic rescue of the vessel's skipper. The US ship was attacked 560 nautical miles off the northeast coast of ...

Somali pirates attack Maersk-Alabama for second time

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Pirates attacked US container ship Maersk-Alabama on Wednesday in the Indian Ocean, at 560 nautical miles off the northeast coast of Somalia, the Bahrain-based US Navy's Fifth Fleet said. A security team on the ship, which was briefly seized by pirates in ...

US ship repels pirates with guns and sound blasts

AP News 4 days ago

Somali pirates attack US-flagged Maersk Alabama for second time; guards repel attack Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel at a time when ships ...

Tanker captain dies of wounds: Somali pirate

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

The captain of a chemical tanker captured by Somali pirates this week off the Seychelles with 28 North Koreans on board has died of his wounds after being shot, a pirate told AFP Wednesday. "The captain has passed away due to the ...

Somali pirates attack US container ship: navy

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Pirates attacked a US container ship on Wednesday in the Indian Ocean, at 560 nautical miles off the northeast coast of Somalia, the Bahrain-based US Navy's Fifth Fleet said. A security team on the ship Maersk-Alabama, which was briefly seized by pirates ...

Admiral praises armed action to foil pirates

AP News 4 days ago

Admiral praises action off Somalia that foiled pirate attack against Maersk Alabama The head of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East is praising action by armed guards that foiled a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. Vice Admiral Bill Gortney ...

Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns

AP News 5 days ago

Somali pirates attack US-flagged Maersk Alabama for 2nd time, guards repel attack with gunfire Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired ...

Seized tanker's captain dies, Alabama attacked again

Reuters US Online Report World News 5 days ago

HARADHEERE, Somalia (Reuters) - The captain of a Virgin-Islands owned chemical tanker hijacked this week has died from gunshot wounds sustained when the ship was attacked, a Somali pirate said on Wednesday. There was a pause in hijackings during monsoon rains, but ...

KENYA PIRACY MAERSK ALABAMA

AP News 5 days ago

FILE - The U.S.-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama arrives in Mombasa, Kenya, in this Saturday April 11 2009, file photo, after the ship was attacked by Somali pirates firing automatic weapons Wednesday but its unarmed crew locked themselves in a secure ...

Ransom paid as Somali pirates free Spanish trawler

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Somali pirates on Tuesday released a Spanish tuna trawler and its 36 crew seized more than a month ago in the Indian Ocean, saying they had been paid a four-million-dollar (2.6-million-euro) ransom. Speaking in Madrid, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ...

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