Hijacked crew retake ship from pirates

The crew of a cargo ship captured by Somali pirates pounced on their sleeping captors today, disarming them and killing five before regaining control of their vessel which had been hijacked almost three months earlier, officials said.

A sixth pirate survived the attack by the crew of the Libyan-owned MV Rim and was taken hostage, said Abdiaziz Aw Yusuf, the district commissioner in Garacad, the Somalian coastal town near which the ship had been anchored.