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Somalia pirates free Georgian sailors
Source: AFP / Google News
TBILISI — Fifteen Georgian sailors held hostage by pirates for more than a year off the coast of lawless Somalia have been freed, officials from the ex-Soviet state said on Sunday.
But there was no word on the fate of three Turkish sailors captured with them.
"The liberation of the Georgian sailors hijacked by Somali pirates has ended successfully," Georgia's Maritime Transport Agency said in a statement.
"The sailors are under armed guard on a ship controlled by the Georgian government," it said.
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