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(Xinhua) -- A Yemeni provincial prosecution referred on Monday seven Somali pirates captured off the country's southeast coast to a criminal court, a military-run website reported.
The seven Somali pirates were seized along with five machine guns and ammunition on Oct. 15, 2009 off the Yemeni southeast coastal province of Hadramout in the Arab Sea while they were trying to "target" French and American ships, the 26Sep.net quoted judicial sources as saying.
The report provided no further details on the incident.
According to the Yemeni coast guards' statistics, 41 cargo vessels along with 521 sailors of different nationalities were seized by pirates throughout 2009.
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