Pirates killed five crew members aboard the Palau-flagged oil tanker MT Honour 25 before Puntland (a semiautonomous region of northeastern Somalia) maritime police freed the ship on Tuesday, officials said; the dead were three Pakistanis, one Indian and one from Myanmar, and four others were injured. The vessel had been hijacked on April 21, and authorities reported that suspected pirates were captured, though accounts of the number differ between 16 and 21. The killings appear to be the first by Somali pirates in more than a decade and come amid a resurgence of piracy, with at least 15 attacks off Somalia since April, raising fresh concern over a key global shipping route.