Egyptian pirate ships on their way to Suez

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Yemen coast guard officials said Saturday that the two fishing vessels with 40 Egyptian fishermen who had reportedly managed to free themselves from their Somali captors was on its way to the Egypt's port city of Suez. The vessels had been arrested for illegal fishing on April 10.

Egyptian media reported that the Egyptian sailors had killed two of their captors and hold four others.

The Yemeni coast guard believed that the fishermen, by sailing past Aden and heading to Suez, wanted to hand the pirates over to Egyptian authorities and not to Yemen.

Meanwhile local sources report that seven dead Somalis were washed ashore.

Mohammad Nasr and Hassan Khalil the owners of the vessels might face criminal charges not only for abducting minors to work on the ships without the knowledge of their parents and for sailing against the clear instructions by the Egyptian Government into Somali waters for illegal fishing but now also for murder. That the owner-duo tries to cover their illegal fishing trip up by a too late claim that Mohamed Alnahdi, the executive manager of Mashrq Marine Product, had rented the vessels for fishing, will not help them much.

Two of the Somalis were killed during that shoot-out, the owner already admit and the Egyptians took several others with them - 8 as Al Jazeera reported.

"We have found seven of our dead colleagues floating in the sea," said the associate, who gave his name as Farah, by telephone from Las Qoray to Reuters.

"The Egyptian crew members killed them ... we used to welcome them and treat the Egyptians better than the others, but if we capture more of them we shall get our revenge."

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