The fate of the four Americans held by pirates on their yacht off Somalia ended in tragedy today as all four perished at the hands of their captors, Navy officials say. "This did not end the way we wanted it to," says a Navy official. "After we'd be talking to the pirates for four days we were hoping for a better ending." The USS Sterett (the 500-foot destroyer) came within "several hundred" yards of the 85-foot yacht Quest, which was owned by Jean and Scott Adam and also carrying friends Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle. As they got closer to the yacht "they heard shots and an RPG was fired at the Sterett" from the yacht, a Navy official says. By the time sailors boarded the yacht, the four Americans had been mortally wounded, as had two pirates, apparently by their fellow pirates. "Those two may have wanted to surrender -- we just don't know yet," he says.
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