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Somali pirates kill 5 crew on hijacked tanker before rescue by security forces

South China Morning Post30 September 2026, 02:43 UTCSomalia

⁠Somali pirates ⁠killed five crew members of ⁠the hijacked MT Honour 25 petroleum products tanker before it was rescued by security forces, Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Tuesday. The deaths aboard the ‌Palau-flagged ship appear to be the first at the hands of Somali pirates in over a decade. The ship with 17 crew members was seized by pirates in April during a resurgence of Somali piracy that experts have attributed, in ⁠part, to impacts of the Iran war, including elevated...

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