Crew, including 18 Indians, of hijacked ship safe

Eighteen Indians are among 22 crew aboard a Mumbai-bound ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa on Monday.

The Hong Kong-registered MT Stolt Valor was bound for Mumbai from the Suez Canal with a load of oil products when armed pirates seized it about 38 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen.

The pirates have taken the ship to Somalia but no demands have yet been made. The crew is reported to be safe.

The Indians aboard the Stolt Valor are mostly from Mumbai. The other crew includes two Filipinos, a Bangladeshi and a Russian.

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