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Pirates Holding 12-Year-Old Girl for Ransom

Released hostage says he saw child, other women aboard vessel

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 23, 2009 9:29 AM CST

(Newser) – A just-released pirate hostage says the Somalian scallywags are holding a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl captive aboard the British ship Ariana. Captain Ricardo Blach, whose ship, the Alakrana, was released last week after six weeks of captivity, says the pirates at one point brought him aboard...   Read full story »

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