The ransom had been paid to the pirates to end the world's biggest ship hijacking.
The canister full of cash was parachuted onto the Sirius Star - observed by the U.S. Navy who provided these images - and the two-month ordeal of the 25 crew, including two Britons, was finally over.
The pirates originally wanted more than £16 million to release the boat and its £65 million load of oil. Eventually they accepted the offer of $3million (around £2million).
But as they made off they continued to row about the payout.
'Two of them swam and survived. One is still missing.
The weather was so terrible that it blew the boat over, then sank it.
We got five dead bodies and we are still searching for the missing one. The waves were disastrous,' said Farah Osman, an associate of the gang.
It is not known what happened to the money or those who survived.
After the squabbling gang left the Saudi supertanker its crew were free to move to a safe port.
Both British crewmen - chief engineer Peter French and second officer James Grad - said they were well treated by the pirates.
Andrew Mwanguru, of the East African Seafarers Assistance programme, based in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, said: 'The last batch of gunmen have disembarked from the Sirius Star. She is now steaming out to safe waters.'
The company has declined to comment.
The Sirius Star was captured in November with 25 crew members, 450 nautical miles southeast of Kenya in the boldest seizure to date by Somali pirates.
Story taken from: www.dailymail.co.uk
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You can't make this stuff up. They pulled a daring robbery, GOT THE MONEY, then died stupidly on the way home. The photo above is what $3 000 000 dollars looks like, parachuting down to the tanker.
2 comments:
Pity they didn't just blow the bloody ship up.
The pirates, I mean, not the civilised arseholes.
Love,
Terri in Joburg
I've always said there really isn't any justice. Perhaps I may be slightly wrong.
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