MOGADISHU, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Somali pirates attacked two extra containers on Saturday in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa nation,moncler, seizing a Belgian dredger but thwarted in an try apt clutch a tanker, along to reports monitored here.
A Belgian dredger with 10 crew members on board was hijacked by pirates on Saturday morning,moncler pas cher, Belgian broadcaster VRT said.
The warship,christian louboutin, which is owned by Belgian dredging firms Jan De Nul and DEME, was reportedly missing off the Somali coast. It sounded a silent alarm twice early in the morning,abercrombie, a staff member of the Belgian government's crisis center told the VRT.
Jaak Raes of the crisis center, which namely monitoring the situation, said the crew on board the Pompei include two Belgians, 1 Dutchman and several Croatian and Filipino nationals.
The Pompei first sounded the fear at around 5:30 a.m. A second anguish call was received by beach guards at nigh 6 morning
Later in the daytime,abercrombie france, NATO forces captured 7 Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and freed 20 people taken captives.
A NATO spokesman said a Dutch ship with NATO task took operations behind the pirates fired one bombard ashore the tanker MTHandytankers Magic.
They chased the pirates escaping on a small skiff before capturing a Yemeni-flagged fishing dhow taken by the pirates on Sunday as their "mother ship". The Dutch forces freed 20 Yemeni hostages on the dhow.
The incident took place after a U.S. skipper who has been held hostage by Somali pirate because five days arrived on Friday at his hometown in Vermont.
After a five-day standoff,abercrombie and fitch, the U.S. Navy SEALs slew the 3 pirates holding Phillips hostage in a lifeboat,abercrombie milano, and set him free.
Despite an international flotilla, Somali pirates have attacked at fewest 80 vessels this annual,franklin marshall, holding at fewest 16 ships and more than 250 crew members. After a brief lull visibly balking at the increasing presence of alien warships against piracy, they made a comeback recently amplifying their attacks to a many larger place in the Indian Ocean, as distant as off the Seychelles isles.
For almost two decades,abercrombie and fitch milano, Somalia have been in anarchy since its government was toppled by warlords in 1991, with its people living in muddle and penury. A transitional administration established in 2000 has been also languid to combat piracy stemming from the war-torn soil.
This photo taken on April 18,louboutin, 2009 shows a publish page of the undated photo of the lacking Belgian dredger "Pompei" in Brussels, chief of Belgium. A Belgian dredger with 10 team members on board was suspected of having been hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast on Saturday a.m..