News Source: United Press International
| 20 days ago
Somali pirates holding the crew of a Spanish fishing vessel are threatening to kill captives taken ashore unless their demands are met, relatives say. The captives told their relatives in a brief phone conversation that the pirates were following...
News Source: Macleans
| 20 days ago
Spain said Friday it would not free two captured pirates as demanded by their fellow hijackers who are holding a Spanish trawler and 33 crew members off the coast of Somalia. The trawler's captain told Spanish media Thursday that the pirates on board...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 20 days ago
Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the captain of the vessel said today. "They have taken three of our crew and have given a deadline of two days," captain Ricardo Blach told Spanish television by...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 20 days ago
Crew members of a Spanish fishing ship seized by Somali pirates over a month ago pleaded with their relatives on Thursday to press the Spanish government to do more to gain their release. The relatives said that during telephone calls placed from the...
News Source: United Press International
| 20 days ago
Somali pirates holding a Spanish trawler took three crew members ashore Thursday to press Spain to release fellow pirates, the crew's family members said. The pirates threatened to hand the crew members to the families of two suspected gunmen held in...
News Source: News 24
| 21 days ago
Somali pirates said on Thursday they had taken three hostages from a Spanish fishing vessel ashore and may hand them to the families of two suspected pirates being held by Spain. The Spanish navy captured two Somalis in the Indian Ocean shortly after...