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Belgian Ship was released by Somali Pirates

Belgian Authorities have said that the 10 member crew dredger were released by the Somali pirates. Master of the vessel is a Dutch man along with 3 Filipinos and 4 Crotaions were relesed after the ransom money was dropped near to the ship. There were 10 guarding pirates and they left the vessel as soon as they saw the undisclosed amount of ransom money.


The pirates asked for 8 million dollars when they catured the ship 2,1/2 months before while it was sailing a few hundred miles north of the Seychelles islands as they were sailing from Dubai to South Africa.