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Britons on hijacked tanker

Somali pirates are taking a hijacked oil tanker with two Britons on board to a port in Somalia, the US Navy said.

The Saudi-owned large oil tanker Sirius Star, which was sailing under a Liberian flag, was hijacked 450 nautical miles south-east of Mombasa.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office confirmed that two of those on board are British but could not give any details of their role on the ship.

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