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Ten Italians on tugboat reported hijacked - NATO
11 Apr 2009 14:12:48 GMT
 Source: Reuters
ON BOARD NRB CORTE-REAL, April 11 (Reuters) - A U.S.-owned, Italian-flagged tugboat reported hijacked in the Gulf of Aden has 10 Italian citizens among its 16-member crew, according to NATO alliance officials on a warship in the region.

Lieutenant Sergio Carvalho, on the Portuguese warship NRB Corte-Real, said the tugboat issued a distress call before communications went silent six minutes later.

The NATO officials on the Portuguese ship, which was too far away to help, said the vessel appeared to have been hijacked although they could not definitively confirm that. A regional maritime group in Kenya, however, said it had firm information the tugboat had been seized. (Reporting by Alison Bevege, Writing by Andrew Cawthorne)


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