Puntland: Coast Guards Highjack Impounded Korean Ship.

[AYOUB]

* Soldiers had been guarding impounded vessel

 

* Ship headed to unknown destination

 

NAIROBI, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A dozen soldiers guarding a North Korean ship impounded in Somalia's autonomous Puntland region for maritime violations have hijacked the vessel and its 33 crew, government and naval sources said on Wednesday.

 

Puntland had been the epicentre of Somali piracy but the use of armed guards on ships and a concerted crackdown by international navies has seen the number of successful pirate hijackings fall in 2012.

 

MV Daesan, a North Korean ship ferrying cement to Somali capital Mogadishu, was impounded and fined last month by Puntland authorities who accused it of ditching its cargo off Somalia's coast.

 

The ship dumped the cement into the ocean because it had been rejected by importers in Mogadishu, who claimed that the cement was wet and unusable, authorities said.

 

However, a government source told Reuters a dozen soldiers guarding the vessel hijacked it on Tuesday night. It was now at sea, destination unknown.

 

A naval source at the port of Bosasso, near where the ship lay seized over the past month, confirmed the claim.

 

"The government is preparing troops to rescue the ship," the naval source said.

 

In 2005, Puntland's naval forces hijacked a Thai fishing boat and demanded an $800,000 ransom for its release, according to Jay Bahadur, a Canadian author of a book on Somali piracy.

 

About 136 hostages taken in the Indian Ocean off Somalia are still being held captive, but the number of hijackings of ships has dropped to seven in the first 11 months of this year compared to 24 in the whole of 2011. (Reporting by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by James Macharia and Michael Roddy)

 

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL5E8NJ3CP20121219?irpc=932

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Wait a minute the coast guard turned into pirates

[AYOUB]

Markabkii MV Daesan oo ay la baxsadeen ciidamada Bada Puntland (Sarancen)

 

 

Waxaa maalinimadii shalay soo shaac baxday in magaalada Bosaso lagala baxsaday markabkii MV Daesan oo laga lahaa dalka Waqooyiga Kuuriya (North Korea) oo ay dhawaan soo qabteen ciidamada Bada ee Puntland.

 

http://horseedmedia.net/2012/12/19/markabkii-mv-daesan-oo-ay-la-baxsadeen-ciidamada-bada-puntland-sarancen/

[AYOUB]

Xaaji Xunjuf;900487 wrote:

Wait a minute the coast guard turned into pirates

Let's wait for our Dr. Xiinfaniin to shade some light on this. He does claim to have some inside info when it comes to the blurred working relation between piracy cartels and the mercenaries-trained coast guards. This incident re-enforces the views of the likes of Prof. Ibbi who said funding Puntland forces to fight piracy was tantamount to asking a hyena to look after a goat.

[GaraadMon]

There are no words...

[Che -Guevara]

Stop disparaging Somalia's navy.

[Mooge]

That is the ship that was dumping the expired cement on the coast of puntland destroying all living things.

 

no way should it be given back to the mafia owners until they pay for the cleanup of the damage.

[GaraadMon]

It's amazing how wide the gaps between North and South Korea are. South Korea is by far the world leader in ship building yet their northern counterparts are using derelict ships not worth retrieving.

 

The North Korean care not for the crew members, and the ship isn't worth much. You'd think that the pirates would learn from their last encounter with Koreans.

[Tillamook]

This is great news...Let the real negotiations begin.

[Jacaylbaro]

:D ... The irony

[oba hiloowlow]

[Sakata]

What Da Phxxx, i guess they didn't get there cut.... we need some explanation where are the Planders.

[Jacaylbaro]

^ ^ They are busy calculating the possible ransom

[Haatu]

Xaaji Xunjuf;900487 wrote:

Wait a minute the coast guard turned into pirates

You know what they say Xaaji, a leopard never changes its stripes. Once a pirate, always a...

[Jacaylbaro]