Somali Pirates Pushed off Ship, But Kill Captain

Somali pirates attempted to hijack a ship Thursday night in the Mogadishu port but were eventually scared away by a rescue effort. The Syrian captain on the Panama-flagged ship was killed in the incident. The African Union forces and Somali police responded after receiving a distress call from the ship.But Barigye Ba-hoku, the spokesman for African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM, says that by the time his forces got there, the pirates had already climbed aboard the vessel."We reacted very quickly and tried to prevent these characters from boarding on to the ship, but unfortunately by the time we reacted, some of them had already succeeded and accessed the ship and had even managed to reach the cabin crew area," said Ba-hoku.The AMISOM spokesperson claimed he did not have knowledge of ship's cargo, but the boat was reportedly en route from Dubai.Ba-hoku says that after some shots were exchanged, the pirates fled the ship. ..more..http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-26-voa11.cfm
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