Somali pirates release five hostages

Five hostages have been freed from Somali pirates by the British Royal Navy.

Five hostages have been freed from Somali pirates by the British Royal Navy.

A crew of marines from HMS Cornwall boarded the vessel in the Indian Ocean after a South Korean merchant ship spotted it "acting suspiciously".

A search found the ship's original Yemeni crew had been held hostage for three months.

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