A U.S. warship is approaching the area off the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates have anchored a hijacked ship chartered to carry U.N. food aid, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday.
Gunmen wielding AK-47s stormed the Kenyan-owned MV Rozen on Sunday, taking hostage its six Kenyan and six Sri Lankan crew after intercepting the freighter by speedboat.
It was the third hijacking in two years of a ship hired to carry relief supplies by the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP).
Penny Ferguson, WFP spokeswoman in neighboring Kenya, said the
United Nations understood the vessel was anchored off Bargal, a port in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region.
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