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Crew of German freighter held by pirates unharmed: shipping company
Dec 29, 2010, 13:08 GMT
Papenburg, Germany - Somali pirates who this week seized a German freighter have not harmed the crew of eight, the shipping company said Wednesday.
The Ems River was captured in the Indian Ocean, 175 nautical miles off the port of Salalah in Oman on Monday. The vessel with a crew of seven Filipinos and a Russian was en route from the United Arab Emirates to Greece.
'They are all well,' a spokesman for Grona Shipping in Papenburg, Germany said of the crew. Their relatives have all been informed, he said.
The pirates were 'in full control' of the ship, he added. 'We haven't had any contact with the hijackers yet,' he said.
Several other recent attempts to seize German ships failed when crew shut down all machinery and hid until Western navies arrived to assist.
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