Pirate says $4 million ransom paid for Italian tugboat

2009/08/10 03:26:57 @Reuters: International News

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali pirates received a $4 million ransom to free an Italian cargo ship that was seized four months ago with a crew of 16, a member of the gang that held it captive said on Monday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wv9sKs1EEgc:6P-F41fCFo8:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wv9sKs1EEgc:6P-F41fCFo8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wv9sKs1EEgc:6P-F41fCFo8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wv9sKs1EEgc:6P-F41fCFo8:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wv9sKs1EEgc:6P-F41fCFo8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/wv9sKs1EEgc" height="1" width="1"/
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