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CNN’s Mary Rogers to produce segment on Navy Seals’ death |03 March 2014

Seasoned camerawoman and producer Mary Rogers of the CNN (Cable News Network) is in Seychelles to produce a segment on last month’s untimely death of two security personnel working for US Navy Seals.

Ms Rogers has spent more than 20 years in Cairo, Egypt where she is based. A veteran of warzone reporting, she has filmed in places such as Somalia, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Iraq, Chechnya, Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon and Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002.

The American security officials were found dead aboard the ship Maersk Alabama and autopsy results said they died of respiratory failure and were suspected to have had heart attacks, possibly from drug overuse.

The police said that a syringe and traces of heroin were found in their cabin and added that samples have been sent to Mauritius for analysis to establish if the men had consumed "a substance" that could have caused the health failures.

It is understood that Rogers’ segment will try to focus on how the two former members of an elite unit could have put themselves in the circumstances that they found themselves in if as reported traces of controlled drugs and drug paraphernalia were found in a cabin they occupied.

Americans Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy were found dead aboard container ship Maersk Alabama on Tuesday February 18, 2014.

Their bodies were found in Kennedy's cabin by a colleague who had gone to check on him at around 4.30pm.

Reynolds, 44, and Kennedy, 43, worked for Trident Security Firm USA. They were part of a ship crew of 24 members who arrived in Port Victoria on Sunday February 16 and were expected to leave at 9pm on Tuesday February 18, 2014.

The case was reported to the Seychelles police at around 5pm on Tuesday February 18, 2014 by Maersk Alabama's shipping agents Hunt Deltel.

The Maersk Alabama was twice attacked by Somali pirates in the space of seven months in 2009.

Pirates first hijacked the Maersk Alabama in April 2009 and took ship captain Richard Phillips hostage, holding him at gunpoint in a lifeboat for five days. Navy SEAL sharpshooters freed Phillips while killing three pirates in a daring nighttime attack.

The second pirate attack was in November 2009 and an on-board security team repelled the attack by using evasive maneuvers, small-arms fire and a Long Range Acoustic Device, which can beam earsplitting alarm tones.

Based on the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi, was released last year.



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