Remember those Pirates from the other day?
Somali pirate's body washes ashore with $153,000MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship.Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they received a reported $3 million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker. Local resident Omar Abdi Hassan said one of the bodies had been found on a beach near the coastal town of Haradhere and relatives were searching for the other four.
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Somali pirate's body washes ashore with $153000
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153000 in cash, a resident said ...Somali pirates: seized weapons ship crew healthy
International Herald TribuneSomali pirates drown with ransom
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Thought that this was over, here's more!
Somali pirates drowned in rivals' attack
One of the Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil supertanker says fears of being robbed by other pirates led to the drowning deaths of five of his crew. Pirate Libaan Jaama, one of the hijackers who had held the Sirius Star and its cargo of 2 million barrels of crude oil hostage since Nov. 15, told CNN Tuesday that after a $3.5 million ransom was paid and the pirates were aboard an escape boat in the Gulf of Aden, they encountered rival pirates who began shooting into the air.
In an effort to evade the rivals, who were looking for a cut of the ransom, the Sirius pirates executed a turn-around move that capsized the boat and drowned five of hijackers, Jaama said. "When our pirates heard the shots, they thought they would be robbed, so they tried to return to the tanker," he told CNN. "In that quick turn the boat capsized." The Kenya Seafarers Association told the broadcaster the Sirius Star's crew of 23 Croatians, Britons, Filipinos, Poles and Saudis was in "good health and high spirits" when the vessel was released Saturday.
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