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Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Americans on board
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-04-08 18:51

NAIROBI - Somali pirates seized a US-flagged, Danish-owned container ship on Wednesday with at least 20 American crew on board in the latest of a sharp rise in attacks off the Horn of Africa nation, officials said.

Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Americans on board
In this file photo the US naval ship the USS Leyte Gulf is seen as it docks at the port of Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, March 5, 2009, with seven suspected Somali pirates who were arrested by the US marines along the deep seas of the Somali waters. [Agencies]

Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, said the 17,000 tonne Maersk Alabama was carrying 21 US sailors when it was hijacked in the Indian Ocean off Mogadishu.

He told reporters all the crew were believed to be safe.

Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maerskconfirmed that the US-flagged Maersk Alabama had been attacked by pirates about 500 km (300 miles) off Somalia and had probably been hijacked. It said it had 20 crew on board.

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A US naval spokeswoman in Bahrain, Lt. Stephanie Murdock, said a US-flagged, Danish-owned ship with 21 crew reported being attacked by pirates at 7:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday about 280 miles (440 km) southeast of Eyl, Somalia.

She did not give further details.

Gunmen from Somalia seized a British-owned ship on Monday after hijacking another three vessels over the weekend.

In the first three months of 2009 just eight ships had been hijacked in the busy Gulf of Aden, which links Europe to Asia and the eastern Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal.

Last year, heavily armed Somali pirates hijacked dozens of vessels, took hundreds of sailors hostage, often for weeks, and extracted millions of dollars in ransoms.

Foreign navies rushed warships to the area in response and have reduced the number of successful attacks in recent months. But there are still near-daily attempts and the pirates have started hunting further afield near the Seychelles.

On Monday, they hijacked a British-owned, Italian-operated ship with 16 Bulgarian crew members on board.

Over the weekend, they also seized a French yacht, a Yemeni tug and a 20,000-tonne German container vessel. Interfax news agency said the Hansa Stavanger had a German captain, three Russians, two Ukrainians and 14 Filipinos on board.

The pirates typically use speed boats launched from "mother ships", which means they can sometimes evade foreign navies patrolling the busy shipping lanes and strike far out to sea.

They take captured vessels to remote coastal village bases in Somalia, where they have usually treated their hostages well in anticipation of a sizeable ransom payment.

Pirates stunned the shipping industry last year when they seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil. The Sirius Star and its 25 crew were freed in January after $3 million was parachuted onto its deck.

Last September, they seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying 33 Soviet-era T-72 tanks. It was released in February, reportedly for a $3.2 million ransom.

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