Andrew Mwangura, the head of the east African Seafarers Association, said the supertanker was headed south-east this evening.

东非海员协会负责人Andrew Mwangura说，“这艘超级油轮这天晚间，正向东南方向航行。”

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Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, a -kenyan-based piracy monitoring group, said earlier that about 100 gunmen had been aboard the vessel checking the ransom payment.

东非海员救助小组是一个基地在肯尼亚的私人组织，其成员Andrew Mwangura早些时候称，大约100个持枪者曾登船，监督赎金的支付。

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But Andrew Mwangura of the piracy specialist group East African Seafarers' Assistance Program says he believes the ship is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the U.N.arms embargo on Somalia.

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"The MV Action was released by pirates, " said Andrew Mwangura, head of the Seafarers Assistance Program in Mombasa, Kenya.

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"We may have bad news, " said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association.

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Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, told Reuters news agency it is UK-owned but operated by Italians.

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