Pirates hijack tanker off Somali coast

Pirates off Somalia's bank accept hijacked a actinic tanker with a Arctic Korean crew, European argosy armament reported.The MV Theresa VIII, endemic by a Virgin Islands aggregation and operated from Singapore, was bedeviled in the Indian Ocean on Monday, according to a account from the European Union Argosy Force Somalia, whose allegation includes active amphibian piracy.Theresa VIII, accustomed a aggregation of 28 Arctic Koreans, was branch for Mombasa, Kenya, but was hijacked in the south Somali Basin, about 180 afar northwest of the Seychelles, the account said.The address was angry about and is now branch north.Somalia's capricious government, which has a aerial anchor on power, has been clumsy to stop pirates, abounding of whom are based in the country's anchorage cities. That has prompted Western countries to footfall up amphibian patrols.Pirate attacks off the bank of east Africa accept decidedly added this year, according to the All-embracing Amphibian Bureau, which monitors aircraft crimes. But acknowledged attacks accept beneath as a aftereffect of the able attendance of all-embracing monitors.