Thursday, April 21, 2011

S. Korean commercial vessel loses contact in Somali waters: official

SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Hanjin Shipping container carrier with 14 South Koreans aboard lost contact with its company Thursday (Korean time) as it was sailing in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, an official said. The 75,000-ton container ship had departed from Spain for Singapore, the foreign ministry official said. "The ship made its last communications at around 5 a.m.," the official said, refusing to confirm media reports that the ship has been hijacked.

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