Somali Pirates Hijack Yacht Owned by American Couple

Pirates Hijacked a yacht Carrying Four U.S. Citizens off the Somali coast, Somalia's U.N. Mission said Friday.

Omar Jamal, First Secretary at the Somali mission, Identified the yacht to the Associated Press as the S / V Quest. The identities of the four hostages have been released Not, But a website chronicling the ship's Journey says it is owned by Jean and Adam Scott, a couple is a World Wide Mission Distributing Bibles.
The yacht was about 275 miles from the coast of Oman, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, When The Pirates Struck on Friday, Andrew Mwangura, The Maritime editor of Somalia Report, Told in a New York Times.