CORRECTED - NATO forces confirm hijack of Belgian ship
(Corrects to one Dutch sailor, not Danish, in third paragraph) ON BOARD CORTE-REAL, April 18 (Reuters) - NATO forces in the Indian Ocean confirmed that a Belgian ship with 10 crew members on board, including seven Europeans, was hijacked by Somali gunmen on Saturday.
"A helicopter from EU naval force Operation Atalanta flew over and confirmed the hijacking visually," NATO Lieutenant Commander Alexandre Fernandes told Reuters on board a Portuguese warship further north in the Gulf of Aden.
He said the Belgian ship, the Pompei, was carrying two Belgian, four Croatian, one Dutch and three Filipino crew.
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