Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, a regional maritime group said on Tuesday, a day after sources said the gang holding a Saudi Arabian supertanker were demanding a $15 million ransom.
Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, identified the Yemeni vessel as the MV Amani. Few other details were immediately available.
"We were just informed the Amani had been taken," Mwangura told Reuters from Mombasa. "But it had been out of contact for about four days, so it is not known exactly when it was seized." |