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Somali troops storm cargo ship but pirates kill captain

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Soldiers from Somalia’s Puntland region stormed a Panama-flagged cargo vessel held by pirates, but gang members killed the captain in the operation, a minister said on Thursday.

“Our troops stormed the Panama-flagged vessel and engaged the pirates. There was brief fighting before they defeated them,” Said Mohamed Raage, Minister of Ports and Marine Transport, told Reuters. “We arrested seven pirates after they killed the captain of the ship.”

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