Terrifying news once again of the reports of Somalian pirates hijacking a yacht off the coast of Oman.
This time it is the American owned "Quest" with 4 Americans on board whose relaxing voyage has been disrupted in the most tragic of ways.
The Telegraph reports "Pirates have hijacked a yacht with four Americans on board off the coast of Oman, the US embassy in Nairobi has said...
"Preliminary reports indicate that a US-flagged vessel tentatively named as the Quest has been hijacked in the Arabian Sea. There were four US citizens on board," the spokesman for the embassy said...
East African maritime expert Andrew Mwangura said the yacht was sailing from India to Salalah in Oman when the sea-bandits struck on Friday afternoon.
Salalah is 750 miles from the coast of Somalia...
Advocacy group Ecoterra, monitoring piracy in the Indian Ocean, said that the Americans were being held hostage...
"The S/V Quest was attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean and the four Americans on board are being held hostage," they said in a statement...
Ecoterra said the 58-foot yacht was owned by Jean and Scott Adam. It was not immediately clear if the couple were sailing the yacht at the time of the attack...
Pirate gangs in the Indian Ocean are making tens of millions of dollars in ransoms, and despite successful efforts to quell attacks in the Gulf of Aden, international navies have struggled to contain the piracy owing to the vast distances involved..."
For more on this worrying news, please go to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/piracy/8335296/Pirates-hijack-yacht-with-four-Americans-on-board.html
Barticus.
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