Sana'a, Yemen - The owner of a Yemeni ship hijacked by Somalian pirates a week ago said Wednesday that Somalian security forces were preparing to storm the vessel, as he had refused to pay the demanded ransom. The ship, Erina, was attacked as it sailed from the south-eastern Yemeni port city of Mukalla to the Indian Ocean island of Socotra on November 19. It is now off the Eyl port, in the semi-autonomous Puntland region in northern Somalia.
"Security troops were sent from Bosasso to Eyl to rescue the ship by force," ship-owner Attas Salim Aboud, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur
