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| Subject: South-east Asia's lucrative cargoes attract pirates Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:33 pm | |
| They no longer fly the skull and crossbones flag, instead clambering aboard ships wielding guns and knives under the cover of darkness.
"They put knives on our throats and threatened to kill us if we resisted," said Pham Van Hoang, deputy captain of the 4000-tonne Vietnamese-registered ship MT Sunrise 689, which went missing for a week with a crew of 18 after leaving Singapore on October 2.
Modern piracy is surging in the waters of south-east Asia, including the Malacca Strait, a bottleneck for 50,000 ships a year carrying more than a third of the world's shipping trade.
The attack on the MT Sunrise loaded with 5200 tonnes of oil was the 12th ship hijacking in the region since April.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/southeast-asias-lucrative-cargoes-attract-pirates-20141018-117jih.html#ixzz3GXwMrqgW |
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