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MOSCOW — A Moscow court has arrested eight people suspected of hijacking a freighter at the center of a month-long high-seas mystery, according to Russian news agencies.
The Arctic Sea left Finland on July 21 carrying a load of timber but then appeared to vanish in the Atlantic. It was found, two weeks after it had been scheduled to arrive, in Algeria, thousands of miles off course and long out of radio contact.
Interfax and RIA Novosti say the freighter’s suspected hijackers — citizens of Russia, Latvia, Estonia and three without citizenship — were formally arrested Friday by Basmanny District Court in Moscow. No charges have yet been filed.
