The gunmen also wounded another seafarer on the 27,900-dwt Orna (built 1984), a UAE-owned bulker seized off the Seychelles in 2010 with 19 crew.
Hassan Abdi, a pirate commander in Haradhere town, a key pirate center, told AFP that the killing on Wednesday was a message to shipowner Kassab Intershipping.
"The killing was a message to the owners of the ship who paid no heed to our ransom demands.
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