Harboursandport.com: Lagos - Daredevil sea pirates have allegedly killed four security guards as they kidnapped three foreigners including 2 Russians and 1 Indian on a Nigeria-flagged hopper dredger, AMBIKA, in the Gulf of Guinea on January 2, 2020.
Dryad
Global indicated the pirates attacked the 2,153 GT Ambika as she
was operating, only three nautical miles from the mouth of the Ramos
River, which is just nine nautical miles east of the Forcados
Terminal in Nigeria.
IHS
Markit’s AISLive ship tracking portal shows that the trailing
suction hopper dredger is on its way to the Forcados oil terminal off
the coast of Nigeria.
It
was learnt that a heavy exchange of gunfire between the pirates and
about six security personnel on-board the Ambika ensued, during
which the four security guards were killed and the remaining two
injured.
“After
the firefight, the pirates boarded the 1979-built vessel and
kidnapped three crew members, leaving behind five sailors. Two
abducted men are Russians and one Indian”, the maritime security the company further said.
The
World Maritime News specifically noted this current attack as the
first offshore incident within this location, since November 2018,
when a vessel was fired upon.
The
83.5-meter-long dredger, previously known as Galilei 2000 and owned
by Jan de Nul, is now owned by a Lagos-based gas development company
with operations upriver from the Ramos River entrance.
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