Montag, 26. September 2011

Vietnamese Sailors Are Home After Ransom Paid to Pirates

Twenty-four Vietnamese sailors are safe at home after an eight-month ordeal as prisoners of Somali pirates.
Officials and analysts said the cargo ship MV Hoang Son Sun and its crew were released last week after a Vietnamese state-owned shipping company paid the pirates a ransom of more than $2 million. The sailors were flown home to Hanoi and arrived on Friday.
Various shipping sources said the ship's owners paid a ransom in the millions of dollars to secure the release of the

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