Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Six Nigerian and Ghanaian pirates that hijacked the Panama oil tanker arrested by Nigerian Navy, one killed

The Nigerian navy says it has rescued a hijacked oil tanker in
a dramatic night-time operation in which one pirate was
killed.
The Panama-flagged Maximus, owned by a company in the
UAE and on lease to a South Korean shipping company, was
escorted on Monday into Lagos harbor with six captured
hijackers from Nigeria and Ghana and the crew of 18 from
India, Pakistan, China, South Korea, Sudan and Ghana.
Rear Admiral Henry Babalola said the navy is still searching
for two crew taken hostage by two hijackers who escaped in
a pirate vessel. The Indian defence attache, Capt Gautam
Marwaha said one hostage is Indian and the other is believed
to be Pakistan. They have not received any ransom demand,
he added.
The bandits were after the ship's 4,700 tons of diesel fuel
when they seized it on February 11. off the coast of Abidjan.
The ship was rescued on Saturday night about 310 (500
kilometers) southwest of Lagos.

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