'Hijacked' ship bound for US
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Your support makes all the difference.HONOLULU (Reuter) - The crew of a cargo ship reported to have been hijacked said over the radio that an armed crew member had taken over, met accomplices and then loaded 450 Chinese, a US Coast Guard spokesman said yesterday.
He said new transmissions from the Hawaii-bound ship Eastwood were being taken 'very seriously' but he would not rule out the possibility they were part of a hoax. He speculated that the passengers, who the radio messages said were loaded at an island off the coast of China, were intended to be smuggled illegally into the United States.
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