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Global Media Forum in Bonn wraps up second day ... hijacked to a record four in 48 hours. The International Maritime Bureau confirmed on Friday that the German-owned vessel, sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbados, was taken late on Thursday.
The bureau did not reveal the name of the ship. Earlier on Thursday, Somali pirates hijacked an Iranian bulk carrier and a Japanese-operated tanker. A day earlier, they seized a Malaysian oil tanker. A multi-coalition naval force has deployed a warship to track the vessels.
(Deutsche Welle)
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