NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Pirates holding a Saudi-owned oil
supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free after
receiving a ransom payment, a piracy monitor in neighboring Kenya and
the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet said Saturday
“The supertanker VLCC Sirius Star is currently under way to safe waters,” Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association said in an e-mail.Mwangura said all 23 crew members of the Sirius Star, the largest ship ever hijacked by pirates, are safe and in good health. They are citizens of Croatia, Great Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia.