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A ship carrying 2,300 Hyundai’s and Kia’s was captured by Somali pirates about 600 miles off the coast of Somalia late Friday, The Car Connection reports.<\/a><\/p>\n Not to make light of something as serious as a pirate attack, but PR manager at Hyundai Motor America<\/span><\/span> Dan Bedore tweeted that: “Even Pirates seem to be switching to Hyundai.”<\/p>\n He also ReTweeted @Hyundai’s official response: “We hope for the prompt and safe return of the 25 crewmen aboard the Asian Glory.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span>No one aboard was injured in the attack.<\/p>\n The autos were headed for Saudi Arabia from their home port of Ulsan when the hijack occurred just before reaching EU-patrolled international shipping channels.<\/p>\n It is expected that the pirates will hold the ship for ransom, just one of at least 11 also currently being held by Somali pirates.<\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n A ship carrying 2,300 Hyundai’s and Kia’s was captured by Somali pirates about 600 miles off the coast of Somalia late Friday, The Car Connection reports. Not to make light of something as serious as a pirate attack, but PR manager at Hyundai Motor America Dan Bedore tweeted that: “Even Pirates seem to be switching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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