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Armed guards save Dutch couple from Somali pirates

Thursday, March 03, 2011

This photo of Scott and Jean Adam is on display at a memorial service for the couple, shot to death Feb. 22 by Somali pirates while sailing south of Oman, at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Fuller Theological Seminary is where Scott Adam was a student, then an adjunct professor, after leaving a 30-year career as a Hollywood associate producer. (AP Photo / AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya - March 3, 2011 (WPVI) -- The head of a private security company says his guards retook a yacht from Somali pirates after the Dutch couple on board locked themselves in a safe room.

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Thomas Jakobsson of Naval Guards said Thursday that six of his guards were accompanying the Capricorn yacht on a separate motorboat. Six armed pirates were able to get aboard the Capricorn but the Dutch couple barricaded themselves in the boat.

Jakobsson says his men had a brief exchange of fire with the pirates before retaking the Capricorn with no casualties on either side.

The Indian Ocean attack follows the deaths of four Americans last month after their yacht was taken. Last week a Danish family and two crew aboard a yacht also were hijacked.

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