MT Duke (IMO: 9262259). Photo: MarineTraffic.com/

Pirates have actually launched nineteen team participants abducted from a vessel in Gulf of Guinea last month, the vessel’s proprietor claims. Unfortunately, one team participant that was additionally abducted has actually passed away from a health problem.

Union Maritime’s tidy item vessel MT fight it out was struck by pirates on December 15 while underway from Angola toTogo After boarding the ship, the pirates stole 20 of the ship’s 21 team participants, leaving one Nigerian nationwide.

The 20 team participants abducted were every one of Indian race.

The team participant that passed away, an abdominal muscle, ended up being sick soon after he was hijacked.

“It is with great regret that we have to report that one valued crew member, an Able Seaman, was evidently taken ill and died shortly after capture. We are seeking further information from those crew members that have been released and a full investigation will be held into the AB’s demise,” Union Maritime’s declaration stated.

“All the crew who have been released have undergone medical checks and are reported to be well, given the circumstances of their ordeal,” it included.

The Gulf of Guinea saw an extraordinary increase in the variety of team kidnappings in 2019, the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre stated in launching its 2019 yearly record recently. In 2019, the variety of team kidnappings in the GoG area leapt greater than half to 121, standing for 90 percent team kidnappings worldwide in 2019, the record stated.