Pirates free vessel with 13 Lankans
Somali pirates have freed a Saudi-owned tanker Al Nisr al Saudi with its crew including 13 Sri Lankans, after receiving an unknown sum for ransom for the ship seized in March, a maritime official said on Wednesday. The 5,136-deadweightonne tanker had been on its way from Japan to Jeddah with one Greek and 13 Sri Lankan crew members. Read more:www.dailymirror.lk/news/8314-pirates-free-vessel-with-13-lankans.html