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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Belgian ship seized as Dutch thwart pirate attack AFP - Sunday, April 19 THE HAGUE (AFP) - - Dutch marines Saturday freed 16 fishermen held captive by Somali pirates who launched a failed attack on a tanker in the Gulf of Aden, officials said, as a Belgian vessel was taken hostage by sea bandits. ADVERTISEMENT NATO and Dutch officials said an attack on a Greek-owned ship from the Marshall Islands, the Handytankers Magic, had failed but the nine suspected pirates had to be freed after being briefly detained. "This morning we intercepted a request for assistance from ... the Handytankers Magic, that had fallen victim to a pirate attack," Lieutenant Commander Alexandre Fernandes told AFP from aboard the Portuguese frigate Corte Real, which is under the NATO flag. "We immediately dispatched a Dutch NATO ship." A Dutch defence ministry spokesman said the attack on the tanker had been launched from a dhow, a traditional Arab sail boat, which was itself captured by pirates last Thursday. The pirates fled back to the dhow in small boats after the failed tanker attack, but a British naval vessel in the vicinity intervened and kept its guns trained on the group until Dutch marines arrived under NATO orders to board. The Dutch frigate, part of a NATO anti-piracy patrol operation, Allied Protector, had been escorting four merchant vessels some 10 miles away. "The marines found 25 people on board (of the dhow), nine of them suspected pirates," spokesman Robin Middel told AFP. They also found seven AK47 assault rifles and a rocket launcher, which were seized and destroyed. "The other people on the dhow were Yemeni fishermen who were hijacked by the suspected pirates." Middel said the suspects had to be freed on the instructions of a NATO squadron commander. "There exists no legal framework in the NATO for arrests to be carried out," he explained. The suspects were put back in their boat, and the freed fishermen sent on their way back home. Belgium meanwhile confirmed a ship which had sent distress signals early Saturday had been captured about 150 kilometres north of the Seychelles. Benoit Ramacker, a spokesman for the Belgian government's crisis management centre, told AFP the 65-metre (213-foot) Pompei was spotted after having transmitting two alarms in the early morning hours and contact was lost. "The ship has been spotted and we can confirm that it has been taken hostage," he said. The double alert is a standard practice linked to anti-terrorism measures, according to the crisis centre. Jaak Raes, the head of the Belgian crisis management centre, told a news conference that the nearest naval vessel, a Spanish ship, would only be able to reach the area on Sunday. The captain of the 1,850-tonne vessel is Dutch and the crew comprises two Belgians, three Filipinos and four Croatians, he said. Somali pirates attacked more than 130 merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden last year, an increase of more than 200 percent on 2007, according to the International Maritime Bureau which tracks piracy. Heavily armed pirates operate high-powered speed boats and sometimes hold ships for weeks before releasing them for large ransoms paid by governments or ship owners. Dutch authorities already have five Somali pirates in custody awaiting trial. The men were intercepted in the Gulf of Aden as they allegedly attacked a Dutch cargo ship in January. They risk up to nine years in jail if found guilty, and their leader up to 12 years. More than 150 suspected pirates were arrested by naval patrols in the Gulf in 2008. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Blocked candidates could tarnish Haiti voteAP - 46 minutes ago UK-World SummaryReuters - 55 minutes ago Hardliners tipped to win Turkish Cypriot voteAFP - 1 hour 7 minutes ago Three dead in suspected US strike in PakistanAFP - 1 hour 21 minutes ago Americas summit ends amid hopes for US-Cuba tiesAFP - 1 hour 31 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Somali pirates pictured in October 2008. Dutch marines Saturday freed 16 fishermen held captive by Somali pirates who launched a failed attack on a tanker in the Gulf of Aden, officials said, as a Belgian vessel was taken hostage by sea bandits. 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