Somali pirates on Friday hijacked a boat for the second time in two weeks, and local authorities believe they plan to use this one as a mothership from which to attack larger boats further offshore.The small fishing vessel is only the second boat seized in the region since 2012, thanks to aggressive anti-piracy efforts there. The first of the two, an Emirati oil tanker named Aris-13, was taken last week and abandoned four days later without the pirates collecting ransom. They claimed to have abandoned the ship after learning the boat had been hired by prominent Somali businessmen, but not before a gun battle with authorities that left four civilians injured.Read the rest of this article on VICE NEWS.