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Pirates have taken seven Russian sailors and one Ukrainian hostage in the territorial waters of Nigeria, the Russian embassy said on Wednesday.
“The BBC Caribbean ship came under a piratic attack in the territorial waters of Nigeria,” Russian news agency TASS reports with reference to the Russian embassy.
“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,” the embassy said on Wednesday.
It is not the first time the pirates have seized hostages.
Last November 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.
In February 2016, 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.
Belsat.eu, via TASS
