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Summary An Italian ship with a crew of 21 was attacked and seized by pirates in the Arabian Sea on Thursday.
They are all well, we spoke half an hour ago with the commander, said Carlo Miccio, an official at Perseveranza, the Naples-based operators of the vessel, the Rosalio DAmato.He said he did not know how many pirates were on board the vessel, with 70,000 tonnes freight capacity, which was heading from Brazil with a cargo of soya for Iran when it was seized off the Horn of Africa.An Italian news agency reported that the vessel was now heading to the coast of Somalia, the base for pirates who had attacked ships in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean in recent years.Meanwhile, a South Korean container ship has been attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean and is believed to have been hijacked, Seoul officials said on Thursday. The 75,000-ton Hanjin Tianjin with 14 South Koreans and six Indonesians on board reported an attack early on Thursday, Seoul-based Hanjin Shipping said in a statement.
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