Dutch ship 'hijacked' off Somalia

A Dutch cargo ship is reported to have been hijacked by pirates off Somalia.

The MV Amiya Scan, with a crew of nine, was seized after leaving the Kenyan port of Mombasa on 19 May. The ship is believed to have been bound for the Romanian port of Constanta, said Andrew Mwangura of the Seafarers' Assistance Program in Kenya. More than 25 ships were seized off the Somali coast last year, despite patrols by an international maritime force based in Djibouti. "The ship was hijacked in international waters in the Gulf of Aden," the ship's owners, Dutch Reider Shipping, said. It said the crew were four Russian officers and five Filipino seamen. Somali pirates released a Jordanian-flagged vessel they had hijacked a week before.

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