Armed men hijacked a Greek oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria at the weekend and took the 20 crew-members hostage, Greek port police told AFP Monday.
Armed men hijacked a Greek oil tanker off the coast of
Nigeria
at
the weekend and took the 20 crew-members hostage, Greek port police told AFP
Monday.
"We learned today [Monday] that the oil tanker 'Aegean Star' belonging to
the Endeavour Marine Agency company and flying a Liberian flag was hijacked
Saturday, 30 nautical miles off the coast of Nigeria," a port authority
press official said.
"For the moment, we don't have information on the condition of the
crew," he said.
The ship had set off from
Ghana
and
was headed towards
Benin
, the
same source said. The 20-person crew included three Greek nationals, including
the ship's captain, authorities said.
On
Africa
's opposite coast, pirates based in war-torn
Somalia
have
become infamous for seizing ships in the
Gulf of Aden
and
beyond, often demanding large ransoms in exchange for the release of the crew.
A Greek-flagged oil-laden supertanker was seized off the coast of
Oman
by
Somali pirates in February. The vessel and crew were released in April,
although the company involved didn't disclose if a ransom was paid.
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