Ship with Russian, Filipino crews hijacked off Somali coast (3 p.m.)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A Dutch shipping company says a freighter hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia is crewed by four Russians and five Filipinos.
Spokesman Lars Walder of Reider Shipping BV says that his company has contact with the hijackers and “as far as we know none of the crew has been injured or worse.”
The ship, the MV Amiya Scan, sails under a Panamanian flag. It departed Kenya on May 19 on its way to Romania and was reported hijacked Monday night.
Its cargo was a decommissioned oil platform.
Walder said Tuesday his company, based in the far northern town of Winschoten, Netherlands, would not comment on the pirates’ demands out of concern for the safety of the crew. (AP)
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