Somali pirates attempt hijacking near Mozambique

Posted on Dec 30 2010 - 12:37pm by News Desk
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somali_pirates_handsBartamaha (Nairobi):- Paddy O’Kennedy says the pirates attempted to capture the NS Africa and Majestic in separate attacks in the Mozambique Channel over the Christmas weekend.

O’Kennedy said Wednesday that the attacks took place approximately 950 nautical miles south of Tanzania’s main port, Dar es Salaam.

“These are the farthest south attacks we’ve got on record,” says O’Kennedy. No other details were available.

Before the Christmas weekend attacks, the farthest south Somali pirates had reached was about 80 nautical miles east of the Tanzania-Mozambique border.

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Source:-Washington Post