Crew missing following hijack

on July 29, 2014

Whereabouts of MT Hai Soon 6 are still unknown.

Singaporean missing after pirates hijack vessel

BY WALTER SIM

A Singaporean man on board an oil tanker is missing after the Kiribati-flagged vessel was hijacked by 10 heavily armed pirates off the coast of Ghana early Saturday morning.

The whereabouts of the 3,232-tonne tanker MT Hai Soon 6 and its 21-man crew are unknown after the vessel disappeared from maritime radars. Besides cargo officer Yeo Eu Loone, 38, there were 12 Chinese, six Myanmar nationals and two Koreans in the crew.

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Source: straitstimes.com

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Crew missing following hijack

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