Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]
Vietnamese fishermen on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean last December are still in stable condition after spending about one year in the hands of the pirates, online newspaper VnExpress reported. On Dec. 30, 2010, the FV Shiuh Fu No. 1 was last seen being pursued by a [...]
Taiwanese authorities said Monday that a Taiwanese-flagged fishing boat with five Vietnamese sailors onboard was freed from Somali pirates after some of its crew members fought back against the pirates in the Indian Ocean, The China Post reported. The long-line Chin Yi Wen was hijacked on November 4 by six armed Somali pirates near the [...]
An elderly Frenchwoman was kidnapped Friday night close to the Kenyan tourist resort of Lamu, near where the British woman was abducted. An armed gang snatched a 66-year-old wheelchair-bound Frenchwoman from her home near a luxury resort on the Kenyan coast and fled towards Somalia, officials said Saturday. The kidnapping, which happened just across an [...]
File photo of MV Hoang Son Sun, which was released by Somali pirates Thursday after being captivated for nine months. Somali pirates have released a Vietnamese-owned cargo ship and 24 Vietnamese crewmen after receiving US$4.5 million in ransom, according to Somalia Report. The Mongolia-flagged ship MV Hoang Son Sun is currently making her way to [...]
The Vietnamese-owned MV Hoang Son Sun, which was hijacked off the coast of Oman. Somali pirates have captured a Vietnamese-owned cargo ship and 24 Vietnamese crewmen off the coast of Oman, the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) reported on its website Thursday (January 20). Â According to EUNAVFOR, further details of the attack, which took [...]
This undated handout photo released by South Korea’s military shows S.Korean soldiers aboard a helicopter aiming a machine gun at a pirate boat in waters off Somalia. South Korean navy commandos stormed a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, rescuing all the crew and killing eight pirates, according to military officials. “Our [...]
Somali pirates attacked two more vessels on Saturday in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa country, seizing a Belgian dredger but thwarted in an attempt to hold a tanker, according to reports monitored here. This photo taken on April 18, 2009 shows a print page of the undated photo of the missing Belgian [...]
Somali pirates are demanding a ransom on Friday after captured U.S. captain failed to make a escape, according to agencies’ reports. This undated image shows the 17,000-ton container ship Maersk Alabama, when it was operating under the name Maersk Alva, which has been hijacked by Somalia pirates with 20 crew members aboard, Wednesday April 8, [...]
