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发帖数: 10330 | 1 Seaman killed' after navy fires on hijacked ship
(AFP)
BERLIN — An anti-piracy protection vessel fired on a hijacked German
ship during a botched rescue attempt, panicking Somali pirates on board
who shot dead one of the crew, the shipowner said Tuesday.
The head of Bremen-based Beluga shipping company blasted the navies for
an "uncoordinated" rescue attempt and said the international community's
anti-piracy mission in the Indian Ocean had failed his crew.
Its cargo ship Beluga Nomination was boarded by Somali pirates January
24 around 390 miles north of the Seychelles.
The crew of 12 Polish, Filipino, Russian and Ukranian sailors
immediately locked themselves into a secure cabin on the Antigua and
Barbuda-flagged ship.
Two anti-piracy patrol vessels from Denmark and the Seychelles shadowed
the captured ship for the next couple of days.
Beluga's director Niels Stolberg told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
that what happened next was "a disaster".
The Seychelles ship suddenly opened fire, setting the Beluga
Nomination's engine room ablaze in a bid to disable it and prevent the
pirates bringing it closer to the Somali coast.
In retaliation, "the pirates killed one of our men, probably in a rage,"
he said. "The pirates obviously became extremely nervous and lost
control."
One of the pirates was also killed in the exchange, said an angry
Stolberg who blasted the navies' role.
"The crew spent two and a half days locked in the secure room but nobody
came to their aid. The international community has failed. An absolutely
uncoordinated intervention like that is totally incomprehensible," he
said.
He did not provide details of the dead crew member, or his nationality,
and said the condition of the remainder of the crew was unknown.
Two of those on board had managed to escape, he said.
"There was a big ruckus on board. Two of our colleagues used the
confusion to escape. The second officer jumped into the free-fall
lifeboat and catapulted himself into the sea. The second sailor dived
into the water and managed to climb into the lifeboat. The two men were
picked up by a Danish frigate.
Despite the rescue effort, the pirates still managed to bring the
disabled ship to the Somali coast by using another pirated vessel, the
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