Somali pirates attacked and damaged an American ship carrying humanitarian aid today, but the ship and crew were safe under Navy escort, the military and shipping company said.
The pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the Liberty Sun as it carried food for famine-wracked African nations, said the vessel's owner, Liberty Maritime Corp. The ship was en route from Houston to Mombasa, Kenya, with a roughly 20-member crew, officials said.
"We are under attack by pirates, we are being hit by rockets. Also bullets," crew member Thomas Urbik of Batavia told his mother by e-mail. "We are barricaded in the engine room and so far no one is hurt. (A) rocket penetrated the bulkhead but the hole is small. Small fire, too, but put out."
Source: WGN Chicago
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