Three crew members of a North Korean ship who were wounded in fighting with pirates off the coast of Somalia and treated earlier by U.S. medics were admitted to a hospital in Aden, officials said Tuesday.Yemeni Coast Guard officials in southern Yemen port city of Aden said the Coast Guard took the three North Korean sailors from their ship Monday evening to al-Naqib hospital for treatment.
U.S. sailors and medics boarded the North Korean-flagged vessel a week ago and treated the three Koreans and three pirates, who had gunshot wounds, after the sailors overpowered the pirates. U.S. military said a helicopter had flown from the destroyer USS James E. Williams to investigate a phoned-in tip of a hijacked ship and demanded by radio that the pirates give up their weapons as the crew of the Dai Hong Dan regained control of the vessel and detained all pirates.