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KITAKYUSHU -- Pirates armed with swords attacked a cargo ship off the coast of Indonesia late last month and bound the Japanese captain and other crew members before stealing cash from the boat's safe, it has been learned.
The cargo ship sailed to Kitakyushu after the attack in the Gelasa Strait about 370 kilometers north of Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 21. No one was injured in the incident.
Japan Coast Guard officials are questioning the captain over the attack.
Robbed was the 80,000-ton, Panamanian-registered "Martha Verity." As the cargo ship was passing through the Gelasa Strait at about 4 a.m. on March 21, a group of attackers carrying swords approached in a boat and boarded the ship.
After binding the 59-year-old Japanese captain and two or three other crew members with rope, the assailants stole the equivalent of about 430,000 yen in currency from a safe in the captain's cabin.
The cargo ship sailed to Kitakyushu after the attack in the Gelasa Strait about 370 kilometers north of Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 21. No one was injured in the incident.
Japan Coast Guard officials are questioning the captain over the attack.
Robbed was the 80,000-ton, Panamanian-registered "Martha Verity." As the cargo ship was passing through the Gelasa Strait at about 4 a.m. on March 21, a group of attackers carrying swords approached in a boat and boarded the ship.
After binding the 59-year-old Japanese captain and two or three other crew members with rope, the assailants stole the equivalent of about 430,000 yen in currency from a safe in the captain's cabin.
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