A South Korean navy destroyer Tuesday caught up with a South Korean oil tanker that was seized earlier by pirates off the coast of Somalia, official Korean media reported.
The 4,500-ton destroyer was keeping a close watch on the hijacked vessel about 30 miles away, South Korean defense officials told Yonhap news agency.
Pirates captured the South Korean tanker Sunday about 690 miles (1,111 km) north of the Somali coast. News of the attack came as the Combined Maritime Forces -- a cooperative effort by several countries to patrol international waters -- warned that pirates in the Somali basin and Gulf of Aden are venturing farther from home waters to target commercial vessels.
The 300,000-ton supertanker, Samho Dream, was seized while on its way to Louisiana in the United States.
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I have been waiting for the Somalis to seize some freight that was being ported by a country with a less civilized view of the pirates actions - A little bit of "Better at the bottom of the sea than in the hands of pirates" justice goes a long way. (Or at least thins the herd.)
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