Danish yacht with three kids, four adults, seajacked as Rally mourns

4:14 AM Tue 1 Mar 2011 GMT

'Somali pirates - the upper hand in the Arabian Sea' .

It was happening while 65 cruising sailors, members of the Blue Water Rally and others, were holding a Memorial service in Salalah for the four American sailors aboard Quest recently murdered by Somali pirates. Denmark's foreign ministry has confirmed the appalling news that a Danish family of five and their two crew, travelling on sailing vessel Ing, have been seajacked by pirates along the same route as the Quest was travelling. As US and local dignitaries accompanied the gathered cruising sailors in a softly touching ceremony, they were unaware that across the waters Somali pirates had, for the first time ...

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by Nancy Knudsen