Tugboat crew abducted

From: New Straits Times | Date: March 31, 2005| Author: Roy Goh | Copyright information


New Straits Times

03-31-2005

Tugboat crew abducted
Byline: Roy Goh
Edition: Main/Lifestyle

KOTA KINABALU, Wed. - Once again, three crewmen of a Malaysian- registered

tugboat have been taken hostage by armed men, this time in the waters off
Semporna.

In the latest of a series of abductions by pirates in the last few

weeks, five men armed with guns boarded the tugboat, which was on its way

home to Sandakan ...

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