SY Coizil, one escaped, two captive, one dead - Somali pirate update

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7:59 PM Mon 8 Nov 2010 GMT

'Suspicions were aroused when SV Coizil sailed suspiciously close to the Somali coastline' .

It has all the elements of a dramatic novel, with helicopter chases, commando raids, a captive woman and boy, a sailor who escapes into the ocean and a mysterious dead body. But the puzzle of the latest hijack of a yacht off the coast of Kenya and its progress to Somalia requires a detective of Hercule Poirot ability to work out exactly what happened from the mass of conflicting reports. What seems reasonably clear now is as follows: The yacht Coizil, now abandoned on the southern coast of Somalia, was travelling with the owner and two crew, possibly three, which ...

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