A cargo vessel on anchor in Port Harcourt - in the south of Nigeria and the country’s chief oil-refining city - has been attacked by pirates who kidnapped two crew members on board.
Following the incident, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) echoed a warning by the United Nations that pirate attacks off West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea were becoming more rampant and violent.
Noel Choong of the bureau’s Kuala Lumpur-based piracy reporting centre said pirates fired at the Curacao-flagged vessel before boarding it in Port Harcourt,
He was reported to have disclosed that pirates robbed the crew before fleeing and took the captain and the chief engineer with them – adding that a crew member was injured and another was reported missing.
