Gulfnews.com, 21 Feb 2009
Kuala Lumpur: A maritime watchdog says armed pirates have kidnapped two crew of a Singapore-managed tug and barge in the Malacca Strait.
Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, says it is the first abduction of seafarers after a long lull in kidnap-and-ransom cases that once afflicted the waterway between peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra island.
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