Piracy: five most notorious recent incidents

In recent years Somali pirates have seized dozens of vessels and made millions of pounds from ransoming their crews.
Operating from 'mother ships', as well as remote ports along the Somali coast, they have terrorised shipping in the Gulf of Aden and around the Horn of Africa, roaming far out into the Indian Ocean.


Here are five of the most notorious recent piracy incidents:


In Sept 2011, British woman Judith Tebbutt and her husband David, from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire,

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