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Tue 02 Feb 2010Somali pirates claim receipt of ransom
Somali pirates said they received a $3.1 million ransom today for a Panama-flagged ship which they hijacked in October and planned to free in the coming hours.
"Some of our friends have already disembarked and the rest will get off the ship soon," one of the pirates, Hassan, told Reuters by telephone from the coastal pirate base of Haradheere. "We hope it will peacefully sail away in the coming hours."
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