Somali pirates kill 5 crew on hijacked tanker before rescue by security forces
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Somali pirates killed five crew members aboard the hijacked Palau-flagged tanker MT Honour 25 before security forces rescued the vessel. Puntland authorities said the attack comes amid renewed Somali piracy, which experts have partly linked to disruptions associated with the Iran war.
Somali pirates killed five crew members of the hijacked MT Honour 25 petroleum products tanker before it was rescued by security forces, Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Tuesday. The deaths aboard the Palau-flagged ship appear to be the first at the hands of Somali pirates in over a decade. The ship with 17 crew members was seized by pirates in April during a resurgence of Somali piracy that experts have attributed, in part, to impacts of the Iran war, including elevated...