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Kenya: Somali pirates seize ship, hold 10 Kenyans
[The Standard: 2010-03-09]
Somali pirates have taken hostage 10 Kenyan sailors aboard a Spanish owned fishing vessel in the latest series of pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean.According to the Seafarers Assistance Programme co-ordinator Andrew Mwangura the pirates seized the vessel, FV Sakoba, off the Kenyan and Seychellois Coast last week."We can confirm the vessel that left Mombasa for fishing grounds in the Indian Ocean last November has come under pirate attacks," he told The Standard yesterday.Mwangura said the pirate. . .
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