Pirates have killed a captain as the Somali forces stormed the hijacked Panama-flagged cargo vessel in northern part of the Horn of Africa region. Confirming the news, a regional maritime official today said the incident took place when soldiers from Puntland region stormed the MV QSM Dubai, a Panama flagged general cargo ship and engaged the pirates in a fight. The ship, with dead weight of 15,220 tonnes and a crew of 24 comprising Egyptian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Ghanaian nationals, was in bound from Brazil when hijacked in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor. The cargo ship was carrying sugar from Santos, Brazil to Berbera, Somalia.