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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pirates-take-three-children-hostage.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Danish family and two crew members were on board a yacht crossing the Indian Ocean when they were taken hostage" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-pirates-take-three-children-hostage.jpg" alt="The Danish family and two crew members were on board a yacht crossing the Indian Ocean when they were taken hostage"/></a></p>
<p>Three children have been taken hostage by Somali pirates, the first time youngsters have been caught up in the continuing run of high seas hijacks.</p>
<p>They were with four adults on a Danish yacht crossing the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p>Most hostages captured in the waters off East Africa are professional sailors, not families. Pirates are not known to have captured children before.</p>
<p>The Danish Foreign Ministry said the ship sent a distress signal last Thursday. On board was a Danish couple, their three children &#8211; aged 12-16 &#8211; and two adult crew members, also Danes.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has now been confirmed that the yacht was hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean,&#8221; the ministry said.</p>
<p>Two days before hijacking, four Americans were killed by Somali pirates in a hostage stand-off.</p>
<p>Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen said she was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about the situation and expressed her sympathies to the hostages and their relatives.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is almost unbearable to think that there are children involved and I can only sharply denounce the pirates&#8217; actions,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Earlier Somali pirates hijacked a Greek-owned cargo vessel with 23 crew on board.</p>
<p>The MV Dover was seized in the north Arabian sea, 260 miles north-east of the Omani port of Salalah. There are three Romanians, 19 Filipinos and a Russian aboard the Panama-flagged vessel.</p>
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