Gang warns 25 sailors aboard De Xin Hai cargo ship will be killed if China makes good on promise of a military rescueA Somali pirate gang said it will kill 25 Chinese sailors aboard a hijacked ship if China makes good on a threat to launch a rescue... ...full story at Guardian Unlimited
from Guardian Unlimited on Tue, Oct 20 2009
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| 15 Nov 08 |
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Chinese FM: China to exert utmost effort to rescue its fishing ship hijacked by Somali pirates » People's Daily The Chinese Foreign Ministry was further checking the information about the hijack of a Chinese fishing ship seized by Somali pirates, and would exert utmost effort to rescue the ship and the crew aboard, according to the consular news released Friday... |
| 02 Nov 09 |
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Efforts ongoing to rescue hijacked ship » People's Daily China's government said Monday that efforts were ongoing to rescue the 25 crew members aboard a cargo ship hijacked last month by Somali pirates. "Rest assured that the rescue work is under way," assistant foreign minister Zhai Jun told reporters at a... |
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Military options mulled over hijacked ship » People's Daily China has not ruled out military action to rescue the crew of a coal ship hijacked by Somali pirates, but is also open to negotiations over what a Chinese military officer said on Thursday could be a long standoff. A successful rescue of the 25 crew... |
| 19 Oct 09 |
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Ship with 25 Chinese aboard seized in Somali pirate strike » Shanghai Daily SOMALI pirates seized a Chinese cargo ship yesterday with 25 people onboard, a naval spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy force said, in the first successful attack on a Chinese vessel since the country... |
| 19 Sep 08 |
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Somali pirates hijack Hong Kong ship, 24 Chinese crew aboard » People's Daily Armed Somali pirates hijacked Wednesday a Hong Kong bulk carrier with 25 crew members, 24 of them Chinese, off the Somali coast, the Chinese embassy in Nairob confirmed. The bulk carrier owned by Sinotrans of Hong Kong was en route from Tunisia to... |