Moscow - The Russian navy has arrested eight suspected hijackers of the "Arctic Sea". As said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, the ship was on 24 July boarded by pirates, including Russians, Estonians and Latvians.
"These people have the" Arctic Sea boarded and asked the crew to the threat of armed force to follow their instructions, "the minister was quoted by Russian news agencies.
The kidnappers were in a dinghy which Frachtergenährt and under the pretext of being in distress, the "Arctic Sea" crew asked for help.
After the attack, all the on-board navigation equipment and technology had been parked sagteSerdjukow. He explained that the lack of radio contact and the weeks of speculation about the whereabouts of the ship.
FinnischenReederei of the lost ship and its 15-member Russian crew had previously been found off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic.
The Black Sea fleet had the 15 Russian seamen freed in weeks of verschwundenenFrachters under mysterious circumstances on Monday. With the liberation of the crew no shots had been killed sagteSerdjukow.
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