Somali Pirates Try to Seize Ships off Mozambique Coast, EU Says
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Somali pirates tried, and failed, to board two cargo vessels off the coast of Mozambique, the European Union’s naval force for Somalia said.
“What is significant is the position of the attempted attacks, which were further south than any previously recorded Somali pirate activity,” Paddy O’Kennedy, spokesman for the EU force, said today in a phone interview from London. The attacks, over the Christmas weekend, took place 950 miles (1,530 kilometers) south of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, off the coast of central Mozambique, he said.