WORLD IN BRIEF : ETHIOPIA : Polish Freighter Attacked, 30 Seized
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Eritrean rebels attacked and crippled a Polish freighter in the Red Sea off Ethiopia and captured 29 crew members and a passenger, the Polish government reported. The 11,600-ton Boleslaw Krzywousty, carrying ceramics and cotton, was found Thursday aground, ablaze and unmanned by another Polish vessel that answered a distress signal.
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