Mogadishu, January 25: Somali pirates have hijacked the German-owned ship MV Beluga Nomination with multinational sailors on board in the Arabian Sea, off the Republic of Seychelles.
The vessel was stormed 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the Seychelles in the Arabian Sea on Monday, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The ship was carrying 12 sailors, including Ukrainians, Filipinos, Poles and Russians, when it was captured, the statement added, without giving the number of nationals from each country.
Around 1,200 sailors were taken hostage by pirates in 2010, mostly in the Indian Ocean — a figure described by the International Maritime Bureau as alarming.
——–Agencies