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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Pirate attacks have increased sharply, especially in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime watchdog agency said Thursday.
There were 85 attacks on ships in the April-June quarter, up from 66 in the same period a year earlier and from 41 in the previous quarter, the London-based International Maritime Bureau said through its piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur.
"Despite a sustained decrease in acts of piracy over the past three years, the statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that we may be seeing a reversal of this trend," IMB director Pottengal Mukundan warned in a statement.
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