Pirates seize another tanker off Yemen

摘要

Pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden, shrugging off recent military and political developments aimed at curbing their activities, hijacked the MV Longchamp, a German tanker bound from Europe to the Far East with a cargo of LPG.The tanker was seized before dawn on Jan. 29 by seven pirates in a corridor patrolled by EL naval forces off southern Yemen, about 95 km from the port of al-Mukalla.