Details of the alleged incident on 3 August, 2011, involving the 153,000-dwt Nordic Fighter (built 1998) emerged this month after Bloomberg reported that a Yemeni coast guard investigation claimed local man Mohammed Ali Quanas was shot under the right eye in his fishing boat in the southern Red Sea.
In an email to the news agency, Hansson said: “I strongly repudiate any suggestion that people on board our ships have ever killed anyone.”
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