Navy Operation: Denmark frees 9 Pakistanis from Somali pirates

Twelve hostages from Pakistan and Iran have been rescued.


Afp April 13, 2012

COPENHAGEN:


The Danish navy said on Thursday that it had stopped a pirate ship off the Somali coast, rescuing 12 hostages – nine Pakistani and three Iranian – and arresting their 16 captors.


“The Danish warship Absalon (on Wednesday) stopped a pirate mother-ship. Sixteen suspected pirates have been arrested. Twelve hostages from Pakistan and Iran have been rescued,” the navy said in a statement.

“No one was injured during the operation,” navy spokesman Mikael Bill told AFP, adding that they had been held by the suspected pirates for about a month.

The operation took place on Wednesday morning and was quickly over, he said, pointing out that the Absalon, a command and support ship which is part of a Nato-led counter-piracy mission called Ocean Shield, had not needed to use armed force.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2012.

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