Ships on lookout for Malaysian tug<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Ships plying the Malacca Strait have been enlisted
\nto help search for the missing Malaysian-registered tugboat
\nbelieved to have been hijacked by armed Indonesian pirates, news
\nreports said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The International Maritime Bureau has passed on photographs of
\nthe tugboat Zara 3 to regional maritime authorities as well as to
\npassing ships, the Star newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
Malaysian marine police and their Indonesian counterparts have
\nalso launched an operation to locate the ship, which was
\ntransporting oil-platform spare parts in the strait, which
\nseparates peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra island.<\/p>\n
The boat, with a crew of nine men, mostly Indonesians, was
\nreported to have been attacked on Tuesday in Indonesian waters.<\/p>\n
The incident came to light the next day when the sole
\nMalaysian crewman of the ship was found adrift clinging onto a
\npiece of wood by an Indonesian navy crew and taken to their base.
\nThe fate of the missing eight men remains unknown. -- DPA<\/p>",
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