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Friday, 11 November 2011

Bomb claim after ferry hijacked

ISTANBUL – Up to five suspected Kurdish militants claiming to be carrying a bomb hijacked a passenger ferry carrying 25 people in northwestern Turkey yesterday, the country’s transport minister said.

Coast guard vessels were tracking the ferry in the Gulf of Izmit but they had not made contact with the hijackers, minister Binali Yildirim told the NTV news channel.

He said the hijackers had not yet made any demands.

Between four and five hijackers were on board the ferry in the Marmara Sea, east of Istanbul, and one of the assailants was standing next to the ship’s captain claiming to be carrying a bomb, he said.   Read Here

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