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Pirates hold 12 cargo ship crew hostage
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A gang of pirates took hostage 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo ship they attacked in Nigerian waters, the vessel’s operator has said.
Massoel Shipping said its bulk carrier MV Glarus, with 19 crew, came under attack early Saturday morning as it transported bulk wheat from Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos to the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt.
During the attack, 83 kilometers southwest of Bonny Island, “the pirate gang boarded the Glarus by means of long ladders and cut the razor wire on deck to gain access to the vessel and eventually the bridge,” the company said in a statement sent to AFP.
“Having destroyed much of the vessel’s communications equipment, the criminal gang departed taking 12 of the 19 crew complement as hostage,” it added.
Massoel spokesman Patrick Adamson said it was the second largest number of people taken from a ship in the oil delta southeast of Nigeria this year.
“Pirates usually don’t make contacts in the first 48 hours, so we don’t have any news on that,” he added.
For safety reasons, neither the identities nor nationalities of the hostages would be released, he said.
Over 60 crew were reported kidnapped last year in waters off Nigeria.
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