Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Powered by Alison Bevege Reuters ON BOARD NRP CORTE-REAL: Drug-fuelled pirates holding a Nigerian boat during one of the longest hijackings off Somalia locked the crew up, aimed a machine gun at them, and fed them little but rice, the captain said. Pirates released the MV Yenegoa Ocean, a firefighting and supply tug, last week after capturing it with 10 Nigerian crew on board 10 months ago en route home from Dubai. "We were taken to a remote area off Somalia and we were living like animals in that place,"...
photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag
