WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, said the U.S. government was "deeply saddened and very upset by the murder of four American citizens" -- a "deplorable act" that underlined the need for more international cooperation against the pirates.
Hillary Clinton expressed the condolences after the four U.S. hostages killed by Somali pirates on Tuesday. Reportedly these Americans were kidnapped by the pirates for ransom while they were on their private yacht off Somalia.
According to U.S. military sources the hostages were killed before special forces took control of the pirates’ ship. The U.S. special forces took fifteen pirates into custody during the raid killing two of them; while two of the pirates were dead before the troops boarded into the vessel, the military sources further said.
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