Two Nigerian naval guards were killed while four
foreigners were kidnapped by pirates when they attacked a ship being used by an
oil servicing company in the waters off Niger delta, Nigeria. According to the Navy
spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu, the foreigners are one Malaysian, one Iranian,
a Thai and an Indonesian.
The attack took place around 33 nautical miles off the coast
of Bonny, Nigeria's main oil export terminal. Netherlands-based Sea Trucks
Group, whose boat Jascon was attacked, confirmed that four of its staff had
been seized and that two other security guards were also wounded in the attack.
The two remaining injured security personnel are now in Port Harcourt hospital
for treatment. Sea Trucks Group is making every effort to find out where the
kidnappers.
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