Pirates off the coast of Nigeria have
attacked a Turkish cargo ship, kidnapping six crew members in a region
which has seen increasing piracy in recent years, a Turkish maritime
news agency reported monday.
The Deniz News Agency said pirates
abducted the ship’s mechanical engineer, electrician, navigator and
three captains. The ship is owned by Kaptanogul Shipping, which told the
news agency that both the kidnapped crew and those who remained on the
ship, were “in good health”.
It was unclear how many crew members
were aboard the M/T Puli, which was carrying chemicals, when it was
attacked. Company officials said the pirates have not contacted them.
At the end of 2015 pirates kidnapped
crew members from Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland in the area which is
increasingly a piracy hotspot.
Meanwhile incidents of piracy off the
coast of Somalia in eastern Africa — once a global hub for pirates —
have significantly fallen in the past three years due in large part to
patrols by international warships and armed guards aboard commercial
vessels.
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