Pirates have abducted seven Russian sailors and one Ukrainian in the
territorial waters of Nigeria, the Russian embassy has said.
Russian Embassy in Nigeria reported on Wednesday: “The BBC Caribbean
ship came under a piratical attack in the territorial waters of
Nigeria.”
The Russian embassy said on its Twitter page: “Seven Russian citizens
and one Ukrainian citizen have been kidnapped from the ship.”
The Russian embassy has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in establishing the whereabouts of the abducted crew.
According to Russia News Agency, TASS, Maritime Herald on Tuesday
said the general cargo ship BBC Caribbean was attacked by pirates in the
Gulf of Guinea 45 nautical miles south-west off Brass, Nigeria.
The incident happened near Pennington Oil Terminal at Nigerian Delta,
when the cargo ship was approached by a motor skiff with armed men on
board, who opened fire.
The guards on board of the general cargo ship BBC Caribbean returned fire.
On November 27 last year, three Russian sailors were taken hostage
when the Saronic Breeze ship was attacked in the territorial waters of
Benin.
On December 20 all were freed.
On December 20 all were freed.
On February 23 last year, the Bourbon Liberty 251 ship belonging to a
French company was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.
The attackers eventually fled taking two hostages, one of them Russia’s Ivan Rydny.
He was freed in March 2016 to return to his family in Murmansk.
The news of the hostage taking was also broken in the Twitter handle
of Rus to En Fr Es News @Rus_Eng_News, which said: “In Nigeria pirates
kidnapped seven Russians and the citizen of Ukraine.”
Ruslan TradVerified account @ruslantrad had: #BREAKING: pirates took
hostage 8 sailors from #Russia and #Ukraine in the territorial waters
of #Nigeria.”
It added “In connection with the seizure of the Embassy of the
Russian Federation requested the authorities of Nigeria’s assistance in
locating the stolen.”
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