Colombo (ANTARA News/AFP) - Somali pirates seized a Sri Lankan fishing vessel after killing two crew members and took three others hostage, Sri Lanka`s fisheries ministry said Monday.

Pirates captured the boat as it strayed into Somali waters on January 27, the ministry`s director Lal Silva said.

The captured fishermen, who left Sri Lanka`s southern town of Mirissa on January 4, had alerted Sri Lankan authorities, Silva said. (*)

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