'Freeing' the Sirius Star
Updated on 09 January 2009
The hijacked oil tanker Sirius Star appears to have been freed after an estimated £2m ransom was air dropped to the ship off the Somali coast.
Crew members of a Saudi oil tanker captured by Somali pirates in November are reported to have been freed after their captors received a ransom payment.
The Sirius Star was carrying two million barrels of oil when it was seized near the Somali coast.
A spokesman for the pirates said his colleagues had now left the vessel and the crew had been released.
The capture of the ship has proved lucrative for the pirates; they're believed to have received £2m in ransom money.
