From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Wed Jul 22 2009 - 00:41:10 EDT
Somali pirate hijack - on film
Updated on 14 July 2009
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http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/somali+pirate+hijack+
+on+film/3265952
By Girish Juneja
One of the hostages taken when Somali pirates seized a Ukrainian ship
last year recorded the event on his mobile phone. Girish Juneja reports.
They were held hostage for months by Somali pirates.
But one of the sailors on board a Ukrainian container ship managed to
film scenes of their captivity on his mobile phone - at great risk to
his own safety.
The MV Fania, loaded with tanks and heavy weaponry, was seized last
September.
After leaving the gulf of Aden, the vessel was 200 miles off the coast
of Somalia in the Indian ocean when it was attacked by the pirates.
The ship was finally released in February.
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