A cargo ship with a Russian captain has run into new trouble just days after being released by pirates.
The Lehmann Timber was held captive for more than a month off the coast off Somalia. The pirates were reportedly paid a ransom of $US 750,000 to release it. After being freed on Tuesday, it headed for a safe port but has run aground. The 15 crew members have reportedly been unable to start the engine for over a day and have sent out a distress signal. A U.S. ship is said to be on the way to help. “We're in distress. The engine hasn’t been working for over 24 hours. We ran aground when a severe storm broke out. We've no food left at all. We're expecting help from a military ship, but we don’t know when it'll arrive,” Valentin Bortashov, Captain of Lehmann Timber, said.