Somali pirates have captured a Yemeni fishing boat they could use to carry out further hijackings in the Gulf of Aden.
The pirates seized the Yemeni boat and nine crew on 28 May near the island of Socotra as it sailed to Al-Mukalla port.
They took the vessel south from the island and not towards the Somali coast to the west, in a sign they could use it to attack cargo ships navigating the area, an official from the Yemeni interior ministry said.
This may be in retaliation to a Yemeni court sentencing six Somali pirates to death and jailing six others for 10 years each for seizing a Yemeni oil tanker and killing two cabin crew in April 2009.
Saturday 29 May 2010
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