Two Americans killed, Phyllis and Bob Riggle Macay Seattle, are on a boat in Bodega Bay, California, this photo View 11 June 2005.
Two Americans killed, Phyllis and Bob Riggle Macay Seattle, are on a boat in Bodega Bay, California, this photo View 11 June 2005.
Four Americans held hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa killed by their captors on Monday, said the U.S. military, the first time, U.S. citizens in a wave of attacks by pirates plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean killed over the years.
the U.S. Navy warships have been the trailing edge of the captured yacht with four Americans, aboard the ship soon after hearing the gunshots and tried, Americans are making life-saving care of, but they died from their injuries, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
Two pirates were killed during the confrontation and 13 were arrested and detained, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement from Tampa, Florida remains the other two pirates who had for some time were also found dead . The U.S. military does not explain how these two could have died.
Negotiations were undertaken to try and search for the release of the two pairs on the pirate ship when the shots were heard was to win, "said the U.S. military.
Research has been the home of Jean and Scott Adams, a California couple, who had to sail around the world since December 2004 with a yacht full of Bibles. The two other Americans on board were Macay Phyllis and Bob Riggle, Seattle, Washington.
"We urge our deepest condolences for the innocent lives lost aboard the callus Quest," said Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command.
Overall, the U.S. said that 19 pirates were involved in the abduction of the quest.
Minutes before the army said the four Americans were killed, a Somali pirate told The Associated Press by telephone that when the boat was attacked, "the hostages will be the first to go."
"Some hackers have even suggested that the rigging of the boat with landmines and explosives exploded just as the whole yacht with the first shot," said the pirate, who gave his name as Mohamed Abdullahi, who held a friend of the pirate, the four stressed Americans.
Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, director of Dryad Maritime Intelligence, "he said after the turn of events was confused.
"We hear threats against the lives of Americans before, but it seems very, very unusual, why they almost kill the hostages," he said, adding that the pirates have to recognize that killing Americans would be to invite a military response.
The military said that U.S. forces are in control of research for about three days since shortly after the attack by pirates on Friday. Four warships, including aircraft carriers.
Last week, a Somali pirate has been sentenced to 33 years imprisonment by a court in New York for the 2009 hijacking of the "Maersk Alabama," an American ship. The hijacking ended when Marine snipers killed two pirates possession of the master.
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