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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Pirates have hijacked a watercraft with quaternary Americans on commission soured the coast of Oman, a regional shipping proficient and an advocacy assemble monitoring robbery in the Amerindic Ocean said on Saturday.

"The S/V Quest was attacked by pirates in the Amerindic Ocean and the quaternary Americans on commission are existence held hostage," advocacy assemble Ecoterra said in a statement.

Ecoterra said the 58-foot watercraft was owned by Jean and histrion Adam. It was not directly country if the pair were afloat the watercraft at the time of the attack.

Pirate gangs in the Amerindic Ocean are making tens of jillions of dollars in ransoms, and despite successful efforts to meet attacks in the Gulf of Aden, international navies have struggled to contain the robbery owing to the vast distances involved.

The pair began their world trip in 2004, according to their website.

An U.S. authorised in Nairobi declined to interpret and said the bureaucratism Public Affairs was direction press enquiries.

East African shipping proficient Andrew Mwangura said the watercraft was afloat from India to Salalah in Oman when the sea-bandits struck on Friday afternoon.

(Editing by Richard Lough)

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