Egyptian oranges worth 4 million U.S. Dollar hijacked

Somalia pirates hijack a group of Iranian ship carrying Egyptian oranges valued at U.S. $ 4 million off the coast of Yemen. Fars news agency in Iran, Saturday (27.3.2010), quoted the Chairman of Export-Import Association of Fresh Fruit of Iran, Reza Nourani, said the ship weighing 5,000 tons that was hijacked last week when the voyage from Egypt to Iran.Media reports had mentioned, before the ship was located at 640 km off the coast of Somalia and the hijackers believed to be from Somalia. Nourani said the ship was named Talca two members of the Association of Export-Import Fresh Fruit Iran.Somali pirates hijack increased action in recent months. Their profits estimated at millions of U.S. dollars ransom from the release of the ships hijacked in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, Yemen.Earlier this week, the European naval forces patrolling the waters off Somalia to save 13 crew members abandoned the Iranian fishing pirates Somalia without food, water or fuel.The crew was bound for two days, was robbed, and left floating in the sea without any hope with the radio equipment and mobile phones are not working, before they were discovered by Spanish warships.They were seen last weekend at a location approximately 60 nautical miles from where they send an emergency call. The fishing boat's crew was reported to be in good health after suffering it