Somali pirate gets life in jail

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

3 October 2011 Last updated at 17:45 GMT

Somali pirate gets life in jail

A Somali man has been sentenced to life in a US prison for his role in the deadly hijacking of a yacht off the coast of Africa in February this year.

Muhidin Salad Omar is the third pirate to be sentenced at a federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, to a life in jail over the incident.

He was part of a gang that seized a yacht with four Americans on board south of Oman, then killed them all.

A fourth man was due to be sentenced later on Monday.

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