Pirates have released a Greek-owned tanker after eight months in captivity.
Elmira Tankers’ 11,600-dwt Liquid Velvet (built 1994) was set free following a ransom payment, officials say.
Twenty-one Filipino crew members were onboard the tanker when it was snatched in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor in the Gulf of Aden last November.
According to the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs the tanker is now en route to Salalah, Oman.
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