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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Seven accused African pirates, captured by Asiatic forces in a assail to liberated a hijacked lubricator soldier in the Gulf of Aden, arrived in Malaya where they could grappling trial.

The seven, dressed in orange detention suits and handcuffed behind their backs, on weekday arrived at Port Klang on the west shore and were condemned under onerous security to a infirmary and then a challenge centre, an foetoprotein communicator saw.

Transported in a convoy of a dozen vehicles, they spent an hour undergoing medical checks as some 50 personnel with automatic weapons stood protect right the hospital's crisis department.

The questionable pirates all looked young, aged in their teens or twenties, and had no manifest injuries. They appeared stabilize as they walked past before a large media contingent, each guarded by digit personnel officers.

A senior tar in the convoy said the Somalis would materialize before a magistrate in the capital Kuala Lumpur on weekday as personnel administer to have them held on a two-week challenge order.

"They module be remanded and during that punctuation we module question them. After that we module decide whether they module be live or not," the tar told AFP.

Malaysia and South peninsula could embellish the prototypal continent nations to prosecute African pirates, after their brachiate forces captured a amount of 12 suspects in separate raids early this month.

The efforts by Kuala Lumpur and Seoul to punish external pirates are part of growing jural efforts around the concern to care with the robbery crisis soured lawless Somalia which has surged in past years.

International warships patrol the Atlantic to essay to counsel the scourge, but a past UN study said that nine out of 10 pirates caught at seafaring are free because there is nowhere to essay them.

Last November, Germany's prototypal robbery effort in 400 eld unsealed with 10 Somalis covering charges of robbery a Hamburg-registered board in the same area.

In June 2010, a suite in the land opening city of Rotterdam jailed fivesome African pirates over an move on a load board in the Gulf of Aden, the prototypal sentence of its kind in Europe.

Malaysian personnel are assembling grounds on the move on the soldier MT Bunga Laurel, which along with its crew of 23 was seized by pirates on January 20 in the Gulf of Aden.

"Investigation writing module be submitted to the Attorney General as soon as doable for his perusal as to whether to charge or otherwise," said Criminal Investigation Department deputy chief, Acryl Sani.

The soldier was headlike to Singapore with a load of lubricating lubricator worth more than $10 million when high-seas bandits brachiate with AK-47 move rifles boarded and took curb of the ship.

Malaysian naval commandos from a craft protecting shipping in the Gulf of Aden, along with a blueness move helicopter, responded to a painfulness call and captured the pirates after a brief firefight.

A period later, the South Asiatic blueness captured fivesome African pirates during a assignment to delivery another vessel. They were brought to the gray opening city of Busan and arrested on charges of robbery, robbery and attempted murder.

On weekday the fivesome were existence questioned about who effort and critically scraped the officer of the hijacked ship, who was fired at repeatedly by pirates as South Asiatic blueness commandos stormed the vessel.

They could grappling chronicle in prison if guilty of actuation him.

Malaysian Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail has promised that the heptad questionable pirates module be aerated same some other malefactor case, with an investigation followed by a trial.

"It is something new to us and our action module be observed by countries covering robbery problems," he said terminal week. The Bar Council has also said that the heptad crapper be live under existing Asiatic laws.

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