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Africa Horn

Pirates hijack three fishing vessels off Somali coast

2007-05-04

(SomaliNet) Three Finnish fishing vessels have been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia's semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland, a maritime official said on Thursday.

"Yar, Gimme them fish, y'swab!"

"We are still investigating the nationality and the number of the crew as well as the ownership of the vessels," Andrew Mwangura, of the Kenyan branch of the Seafarers Assistance Programme, said.

Mwangura said an unspecified number of gunmen hijacked the boats early on Wednesday. Generally, pirate attacks have increased in recent weeks off the coast of Somalia after dying out during six months of strict Islamist rule in southern and central Somalia at the end of last year. Between March 2005 and June last year, there were scores of pirate attacks in the unpatrolled waters off the 3 700-kilometre Somali coastline.

Posted by:Steve White

#5 And I mean that seriously. It's some sort of weird talent they have.

Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-04 18:55

#4 Yep OP, Finns gotta be the most warlike folks on the planet.

Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-04 17:25

#3 A long way from home to be Finns. Besides, the Finns I know would have taken the Somali pirates as part of the catch.

Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-05-04 13:38

#2 Fishing, not finnish, just a typo, or three typos.

Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-04 09:32

#1 The Finnish Foreign Ministry said it did not believe the ships were Finnish."According to all the information we have received the news that this was about Finnish vessels looks strongly to be incorrect," Foreign Ministry official Klaus-Jerker Lindroos said.

I dunno. Maybe they're eskimos?

Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-04 09:26

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