Twenty Somalis arrested for yacht attack

10:14 PM Thu 25 Nov 2010 GMT

'Crew of suspect craft now arrested' .

Twenty Somalis suspected of being the pirates who were involved in the kidnapping of two South African cruising sailors have been arrested by the Dutch Navy, and are now being held on a supply ship pending further investigations. Long time cruising sailors Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz were crewing for fellow South African Peter Eldridge on his boat SY Coizil, when they were kidnapped off the coast of Tanzania on October 26. Nothing has been heard of them since, but skipper Eldridge, who had refused to disembark from his yacht, was rescued by a Dutch warship after jumping into the ...

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