A Somali official says a ship carrying cement to the East Africa country has been hijacked after NATO joined a growing international force to protect vessels off the perilous coast. Ali Abdi Aware, foreign minister of the semiautonomous region of Puntland, says the ship was hijacked late Thursday and its crew is believed to be Syrian and Somali.
NATO said Thursday it would send seven ships to the treacherous waters where pirates are negotiating the release of the MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship hijacked two weeks ago.
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