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Al Jazeera
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Mohamed Gabobe

‘We’re not pirates’, say hijackers who seized Chinese ship off Somali coast

Fishermen stand on the beach at dusk in Eyl, in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland [File: Ben Curtis/AP Photo]

*The names of the hijackers are pseudonyms on condition of speaking to Al Jazeera.

Mogadishu, Somalia – Liban Hassan* has spent most of his adult life fishing off Somalia’s northeast coast – often finding himself with a net in hand navigating waters near the town of Eyl in Puntland state, where he grew up.

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