Pirate successes down: monitors

Somali pirates have been unsuccessful in several attacks on merchant shipping in the past week and with the release of another two ships during the same period, the number of vessels and seafarers being held hostage for ransom has reached one of its lowest levels for some time, the ports.co.za website reports. The website quoted the NATO Shipping Centre as saying that pirates made an unsuccessful attempt using rocket-propelled grenades to capture a ship off the coast of Oman. The vessel

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