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Russian ship seized off Somalia

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK (Far East), February 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has informed the NATO fleet that a Russian ship was seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia, the Russian Far Eastern rescue center said on Sunday.

"The ship was seized by pirates near Somalia on February 1 at 1:17 p.m. Greenwich Time," the center said.

According to the center, the ship, Svitser Korsakov, had six people on its board: two Brits and four Russians.

The ship was sailing to the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin through Singapore, the center said.