WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
Times Wire Reports
The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed ashore with $153,000 in cash, a resident of the town of Harardhere said.
Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after a larger group split a reported $3-million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker.
Graeme Gibbon Brooks, managing director of the British firm Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service, said the deaths weren’t likely to deter attacks.
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