SOUTH KOREAN FORCES STAGE DARING HIGH-SEAS RESCUE

In a daring high-seas rescue, South Korean navy commandos today storm a freighter that's been held criminal for a week in the Arabian Sea, killing eight Somali pirates and freeing 21 crewmembers.

Five other pirates were captured. The ship's captain was shot in the stomach by the pirates, but he's anticipated to survive, South Korea said."Our special military stormed the hijacked Samho Jewelry earlier today and freed all hostages," Colonel Lee Bung-woo, a spokesman for South Korea's combined chiefs of staff, told The Guardian and other reporters in Seoul "During the operation, our forces killed some Somali pirates, and all of the hostages were confirmed alive."

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