MV Beluga Fortune
Over the weekend, Somali pirates seized two ships in two days. On Saturday, pirates seized the MV York, a liquefied petroleum gas tanker, off the coast of Kenya. On Sunday, pirates seized the MV Beluga Fortune about 1,200 miles east of Mombasa, Kenya. The crew of the MV Beluga Fortune locked themselves in a panic room, switched off the main engine, cut off the fuel supply, blocked the bridge and reported the Indian Ocean attack to military forces. When the rescue team arrived today, the pirates had already abandoned the ship.