Brussels, Nov. 8: The European Union’s anti-piracy mission on Monday said pirates had hijacked a yacht off the Seychelles and that one of its passengers had been taken in by a warship.
Local sources in Somalia reported on the weekend that pirates had seized a man and a woman from their yacht and opened fire on a third man who had resisted efforts to take him to shore.
“The only thing we can say at this stage is that we currently have one of the persons from the captured yacht on board one of our warships,” Lieutenant Colonel Per Klingvall, a spokesman for the EU mission, said. The Somali sources said the two hostages were held in an inaccessible part of Barawe, southern Somalia, after having been seized from their yacht.