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New Delhi (AFP) Jan 12, 2011 Somali pirates have hijacked an Indian vessel carrying 14 fishermen off the coast of Oman, and Indian Navy official said Wednesday. Navy spokesman P.B.S. Satish told AFP that the wooden dhow Al Musa, sailing from the western state of Gujarat to the Gulf, was seized by the pirates on Sunday. "No ransom demand has been made so far by the pirates," he said, adding that the navy was working with Indian shipping authorities and others for more information on the hijacking. Somali pirates, targeting one of the world's busiest maritime trade routes, have made tens of millions of dollars in ransom by seizing ships in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. In 2009, Somali hijackers attacked more than 130 merchant ships off Somalia, a rise of more than 200 percent on 2007, according to the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
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