The MV Abdullah, a bulk carrier flying the Bangladeshi flag, with its 23 crew members, were taken hostage by Somali pirates off the coast of Somalia, according to the ship’s owners, Kabir Steel Re-Rolling Mills. The ship, loaded with 55,000 tonnes of coal, was on its way from Maputo, Mozambique, to the United Arab Emirates when the incident occurred.
About 600 nautical miles east of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in the Indian Ocean, a group of fifteen to twenty armed people boarded the...