{Somali security forces have rescued an Indian cargo ship seized by pirates earlier this month, but the hijackers took nine of the 11-man crew when they fled ashore.}<\/p>\n
They are thought to be being held near the city of Hobyo.<\/p>\n
The Al Kausar was one of three vessels to be hijacked after a five-year lull.<\/p>\n
On Sunday sailors from the Indian, Pakistani and Chinese navies freed the crew of a Tuvalu-registered vessel which had been boarded by pirates.<\/p>\n
The two crew members who were rescued were in a car that the pirates abandoned after they were chased, Mohamed Hashi Arabey, vice president of Galmudug state, told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
{{Maritime piracy threatens to return}}<\/p>\n
Pirates contacted by Reuters said they would keep the crew to try to secure the release of more than a hundred pirates jailed in India.<\/p>\n
Piracy in the waters off Somalia and Yemen peaked in 2011, with more than 200 attacks.<\/p>\n
But it has dropped significantly in recent years, in part because of extensive international military patrols as well as support for local fishing communities.<\/p>\n
However, the factors that drove many Somali coastal fishermen to become pirates nearly a decade ago are still there, says the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner.<\/p>\n
Somalia is currently in the grip of a famine. Poverty is widespread with few employment options for young people.<\/p>\n
There is also continued local resentment at the poaching of fish stocks off the coast by Asian trawlers.<\/p>\n
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