Italian Navy rescues crew after fleeing pirates set ship on fire

The Italian Navy reports that this morning the destroyer Andrea Doria, deployed in the Indian Ocean as part of NATO's operation Ocean Shield, came to the aid of the Cyprus-flagged general cargo ship Pacific Express, which had been under a pirate attack that had lasted almost all the previous night.The crew thwarted the attack by using Best Management Practices and securing themselves in the citadel.The International Maritime Bureau says the attack took place around 300 nm east of Mombasa,

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