Ship outruns attacking pirates
From Times Wire Reports
Pirates fired a grenade launcher and machine guns at a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia, a Malaysian-based maritime watchdog group said.
The Qatar-flagged ship, the Ibn Younus, managed to escape Monday’s attack after an hourlong chase as it headed from Durban in South Africa to Jebel Ali in Dubai, said Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur.
Choong said grenades caused severe damage to the cabins but no one was injured.
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