By STAFF Writer
December 01, 2011
GLORY HIJACKED NEWS - Somali pirates released yesterday, November 30, Singaporean Glory ship hijacked 215 days ago off east African coast. 29,871-tonne chemical tanker MT Gmini had 23 crew on board but only 21 of them have been freed. The pirates kept 4 South Korean seaman captive, including the captain, even after a promise was made earlier to release all. The released crew non-Korean.
The Singaporean ship, owned by Glory Ship Management, was on tshe way from Indonesia through east African coast to Kenya carrying 28,000 tonnes of crude palm oil when it was hijacked on April 30 and diverted to Somalia.
Thirteen Indonesian, 3 Myanmar nationals, 4 South Koreans and five Chinese crew members were on board. Soon after the undisclosed sum in ransom was dropped from a helicopter, the Somali pirates left Glory at port of Hobyo in Somalia.
The pirates have called for freeing their mates who were captured in January this year in a South Korean naval operation and were sentenced to prisons ranging from 13 years to life. In the operation the navy commandos raided the hijacked ship and rescued all 21 crew members. Five Somali pirates were captured and eight others were killed.
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| Somali Pirates (file photo) |
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| Somali Pirates (file photo) |
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