Somali
pirates killed five crew members on board a Palau-flagged oil tanker, the MT
Honour 25, off the coast of Somalia before security forces rescued the vessel, Somali
authorities announced on Tuesday.
Officials said
these fatalities as the first deaths at the hands of Somali pirates in more
than a decade, occurring amid a piracy resurgence that experts link in part to
the impact of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran. Pirates seized the MT
Honour 25, which carried 18,500 barre...