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” Sirius “super tanker.

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) cases in the history of the largest maritime hijacking must also have the same ending the least way. The U.S. Navy’s monitoring department that super-tanker “Sirius” was kidnapped nearly two months, 9 days a vessel flying a small plane suddenly over, and dropped with a parachute “package”, and this package should be is to use raise a ransom of $ 3.0 million people. According to all information, Somali pirates in ransom, after receiving confirmation, has released 25 crew members, so that oil tankers leaving the central Sahara Zawahiri cable port.

However, according to Taiwan media reports, the story does not end there. Pirates get a huge ransom, the first spoils to how the conflict was played, and then return to the land when the boat actually capsized, killing six people drowned, the ship carrying the ransom of $ 300,000 has disappeared, is widely believed that is “Stealing from Thieves.”

why shipwreck, shipwreck drowned when the number of pirates in the end, the current argument is that eight pirates land on the way back aboard the boat encountered a storm capsized, drowning six people. Pirates of group members to understand the matter, said Emanuel, six drowned, three travel for hours to swim ashore alive, these eight people share the ransom money and therefore lost.

stay in the Sahara-Zawahiri part of Hong Kong members of the media that, according to survivors say, walrus really bad, they overload the boat, plus they are worried about the multinational forces will be pursued, so the only place accidents; a member of the Osman quoted survivors saying, refers to the bad weather turned out of their boat, the ship will soon sink, the rest of the people rely on their own land on the tour, “It’s a tragedy.”

Somalia in East Africa Horn of Africa, can be mastered through the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aden between the vessels; forced livelihoods of people in recent years more and more desperate. While countries for many years to send naval escort in this area, but the real large-scale security operations in the “Sirius” looted after the start.

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