WORLD BRIEFING / FRANCE
Times Wire Reports
Three Somali pirates who survived a French commando assault to free a sailboat were charged with hijacking the vessel and holding five passengers hostage, one of whom died in the rescue effort, the prosecutor’s office said.
An autopsy could not determine who shot and killed the French skipper during the raid to free the Tanit from the pirates off Somalia, the prosecutor said. The three men, ages 23, 25 and 27, were placed in separate prisons, which officials did not identify.
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