The pirates Somali pirates aka say they freed a Kuwaiti oil tanker flying the UAE after the victims paid 12 million U.S. dollars. The MV Zirku 105 846 tonnes of dead weight on March 28 was hijacked on its way to Singapore from Sudan with 29 crew. "We have freed the oil tank ship after we receive the ransom, and the ship was gone," said a pirate who called himself Rashid told Reuters on Friday night.

Andrew Mwangura, a former maritime official based in Kenya and is now the editor of Media Report to inform the maritime Somali liberation and said that the crew survived. However, he said it could not confirm whether a ransom had been paid.

Somali pirates get ransom of millions of dollars as of ships hijacked in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, despite the efforts of army-navy abroad to quell the action of such attacks had been carried out. "Piracy in the maritime region makes the burden of the global economy reached 12 billion U.S. dollars a year," said the researchers.