COPENHAGEN: Indian Ocean pirates have captured a yacht with seven Danes including three children aboard and are sailing towards Somalia, the Danish foreign ministry said Monday. The sailboat captured on Thursday was carrying a Danish family of five and two employees, Charlotte Senter, who heads the consular division at the ministry, told the Ritzau news agency. The children, two boys and a girl, are aged 12 to 16, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The family left on a two-year round-the-world tour that was to have ended in mid-2011, according to a neighbour who spoke to the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet. “It's almost unbearable to know that children are involved, and I vigorously condemn the pirates,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen.
