Somali pirates seize Dutch-owned ship

NAIROBI, May 27 (Reuters):

Somali gunmen hijacked a Dutch-owned ship as it travelled from Kenya’s Mombasa port to Romania in the latest act of piracy off the lawless Horn of Africa nation’s coast, a maritime official said on Tuesday. The MV Amiya Scan, managed by the Dutch Reider Shipping BV, was seized along with some nine Russian and Filipino crew members on Sunday while it passed through the Gulf of Aden, said the director of the Seafarers Assistance Programme. “Unfortunately we don’t know where she is right now … there’s been no ransom demand yet,” he told Reuters