A Dutch court sent two Somalis to jail for up to seven years yesterday for hijacking a South African yacht last year and seizing a South African couple who are still missing. Three others were also convicted of piracy.
The five men were caught by the Dutch Navy in the Gulf of Aden in November, heavily armed with machine guns and bazookas.
Prosecutors failed to prove a link between three of them to the sailboat Choizil, which was seized off Tanzania’s coast two weeks before the Somalis were captured. The yacht was run aground and the captain rescued.
Source: The Associated Press
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