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Five pirates drown with loot

World
2009-1-11

FIVE of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported US$3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and port town resident said yesterday....

Smugglers force 150 refugees from boat

World
2008-10-11

ABOUT 100 people are missing and feared drowned off the shores of Yemen after their smugglers forced them overboard in the treacherous Gulf of Aden waters, Yemeni officials and the United Nations refugee agency said...

Somali official: Pirates have docked hijacked boat

World
2008-4-7

A FRENCH luxury yacht seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden has arrived in the northern town of Eyl, Somali officials confirmed yesterday, a day after gunmen attempted to seize a German aid worker in the region. ...