U.S. cruise ship outruns pirates
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise ship with more than 1,000 people aboard but failed to hijack the vessel in a corridor patrolled by international warships, officials said.
The captain of the Nautica ordered passengers inside and gunned the engine, outrunning the pirates’ speedboats Sunday in the Gulf of Aden between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, a company spokesman said.
No passengers were injured, and no damage was reported.
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