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Sun, 2011-02-13 14:54
Sunday’s press release says the HDMS Esbern Snare stopped a suspicious vessel with two skiffs on deck. The warship fired warning shots and sent a boarding party to the hijacked Yemeni vessel.
NATO says there were 16 suspected pirates and two Yemeni hostages onboard. The original fishing crew of nine people had been held for a year but most of them had been released.
Sometimes owners of small vessels without insurance are unable to raise the ransoms demanded by the pirates.
Somalia has not had a functioning government in two decades, and piracy has flourished off its coast.
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