Mistake leads pirates to kill cruising sailor

5:02 AM Sat 11 Dec 2010 GMT

'Myda Egrmajer' .

The daughter of a Canadian sailor who was shot and killed off the coast of Honduras last week tells how the pirates mistakenly thought her father was threatening them. Myda Egrmajer, daughter of Milan Egrmajer, an electrical engineer from Ottawa, told local reporters the details of what happened on their boat on what was to be a three month holiday. She denied earlier reports that her father fought off the pirates, and said he was only trying to help them when the fatal shooting took place. She said the four men approached their sailboat, which was waiting out nasty weather ...

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