“The pirates hijacked the oil tanker and they brought it near Alula,” Mohamud Ahmed Eynab, the district commissioner for Alula, told Reuters on Tuesday by phone. “The ship is on the coast now and more armed men boarded the ship,” he told The Associated Press by phone. Frustrations have been rising among local fishermen, including former pirates, at what they say are foreign fishermen illegally fishing in local waters. “They have been sailing through the ocean in search for a foreign ship to hijack since yesterday morning and found this ship and boarded it,” he said. “Foreign fishermen destroyed their livelihoods and deprived them of proper fishing.”Somali pirates usually hijack ships and crew for ransom.

Source: National Post March 14, 2017 13:18 UTC