Somali pirates say $4 million ransom paid for coal ship

2009/12/27 05:41:45 @Reuters: World News

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A helicopter dropped a $4 million ransom payment on Sunday on to the deck of a Chinese coal ship hijacked by Somali pirates in mid-October, a pirate source on board the vessel said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_YB7kF7nD5s:JnJxzrGNQ_I: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=_YB7kF7nD5s:JnJxzrGNQ_I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_YB7kF7nD5s:JnJxzrGNQ_I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_YB7kF7nD5s:JnJxzrGNQ_I:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_YB7kF7nD5s:JnJxzrGNQ_I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/_YB7kF7nD5s" height="1" width="1"/
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