Kidnapped Crew Released in Nigeria
Four crew members who had been kidnapped from an cargo ship off the Niger Delta in October have been freed in Nigeria, in response to studies.
The 4 males, two from Lithuania and two from the Ukraine, had been kidnapped October nineteenth from the Comoros-flagged refrigerated cargo ship Solarte because the ship sailed off the Niger Delta. During the assault, the pirates stole ship’s money, destroyed gear and kidnapped the 4 of the 19 crew members earlier than escaping.
The launch of the kidnap victims was introduced by the Lithuanian overseas ministry, in response to AFP.
Following the assault final month, maritime safety agency Dryad Maritime famous that the incident marked the return of West Africa pirate assaults, an space that has skilled low ranges of maritime crime in latest months.
“This is the first incident reported at sea off the Niger Delta in five months and has taken place 100 NM further west than the spate of kidnappings which took place earlier this year,” Dryad mentioned in late October. “It comes at a time when the Nigerian Navy are conducting increased patrols of the approaches to the Bonny River, and these patrols may have forced this criminal gang to look into operating in this wider area of West Africa.”
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