Somali pirates expanding area of operations.

VLADIVOSTOK, March 24 (Itar-Tass) - Somali pirates have apparently
expanded a geographic area of their operations, as suggested by the
reports on their seizure of a Turkish dry cargo ship at a distance of
about a thousand nautical miles /1,820 kilometers/ away from the African
coast.
According to the press service of the EU Naval Force Somalia, which is
fighting with piracy in the Indian Ocean, the dry cargo ship Phrigya
waving the Maltese flag has a crew of nineteen Turkish citizens and two
Ukrainians.
Also Tuesday, the pirates seized the motor ship Talca en route from
Sokhna in Egypt to Bushehr in Iran. The incident took place in the Gulf of
Aden some 120 nautical miles away from the shores of Oman, the press
service said.
The Talca has a 25-strong crew consisting of 23 Sri Lankans, one
Filipino and one Syrian.