KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 6 (AFP): A gang of pirates attempted to board a huge Japanese-owned crude oil tanker in the Singapore Strait in the latest of a series of attacks on the region's strategically important shipping lanes, a maritime official said Wednesday. "Pirates in seven small fishing boats surrounded the tanker and attempted to board it late Tuesday," Noel Choong, head of the Piracy Reporting Centre of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) told the news agency.
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