Cargo ship hijacked off African coast
A Danish cargo ship with five crew members has been hijacked off Somalia's coast.
The Danica White was on its way to the Kenyan port of Mombasa from Dubai when it was seized by pirates, Jorgen Folmer, a spokesman for Danish shipping company H Folmer & Co said. The crew members were all Danish.
Folmer said a French naval vessel in the area had confirmed the ship was hijacked but was unable to intervene because it could not enter Somali waters.
He said it was not clear exactly where and how the ship was seized but "we can see that it has been hiijacked of the Somalia coast".
The company had not been able to reach the crew.
"We don't know if they are safe," he said.
The 200ft freighter was transporting building materials.
Somali pirates, often trained and heavily armed fighters using speedboats equipped with satellite phones and Global Positioning System equipment, are notoriously active off the coast.
