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Unexploded grenade left on cruise ship
An unexploded rocket-propelled grenade remained on a US-owned cruise ship after the vessel escaped an attack by pirates in the Indian Ocean over the weekend, Australia’s foreign minister said yesterday. The Seabourn Spirit, with 151 passengers on board, was headed for the Seychelles where US officials will disarm the grenade, Alexander Downer told Australian television. Pirates in two small boats fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the cruise ship about 160 km (100 miles) off the coast of Somalia on Saturday, but the vessel escaped and no one was hurt.
The ship, packed with holidaymakers, was on a 16-day cruise from Egypt to Mombassa, Kenya. There were 19 Australians on board. “An unexploded rocket ... is embedded in some of the passenger accommodation of the ship,” said Downer. “American officials are going to board it initially to deal with that problem.” The Indian Ocean waters off the Somali coast are classed as among the most dangerous in the world. Typically pirates target freighters that carry only a handful of crew members.
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