[SHABELLENEWS] A Somali official says foreign naval forces in international waters rubbed out two pirates and maimed another when the bandidos attempted to hijack a ship on Saturday.Ahmed Abdullahi, an official with the anti-piracy force in the semi-autonomous Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
region, said the two killed men were part of a group of nine pirates in a boat approaching an unidentified ship near the Gulf of Aden when a naval force opened fire on them.
He said the six other pirates survived the attack and escaped.
Residents in Durduri, a coastal village in Sanaag region, said that on Sunday morning they found two dead bodies, apparently left by the pirates, near the coast.
In recent weeks there has been a resurgence of piracy off Somalia’s coast, after five years of inactivity.