Pirates have abducted seven Russian sailors and one Ukrainian in the territorial waters of Nigeria, the Russian embassy has said.

Russian Embassy in Nigeria reported on Wednesday that, “the BBC Caribbean ship came under a piratic attack in the territorial waters of Nigeria.”



The Russian embassy said on its Twitter page that, “Seven Russian citizens and one Ukrainian citizen have been kidnapped from the ship”.

The Russian embassy has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in establishing the whereabouts of the abducted.”

According to Russia News Agency TASS, Maritime Herald on Tuesday said the general cargo ship BBC Caribbean was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea 45 nautical miles south-west off Brass, Nigeria.

The incident happened near Pennington Oil Terminal at Nigerian Delta, when the cargo ship was approached by a motor skiff with armed men on board, who opened fire.

The guards on board of the general cargo ship BBC Caribbean returned fire.

On November 27 last year three Russian sailors were taken hostage when the Saronic Breeze ship was attacked in the territorial waters of Benin. On December 20 all were freed.

On February 23 last year the Bourbon Liberty 251 ship belonging to a French company was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.

The attackers eventually fled taking two hostages, one of them Russia’s Ivan Rydny. He was freed in March 2016 to return to his family in Murmansk.

The news of the hostage taking was also broken in the Twitter handle of Rus to En Fr Es News ‏@Rus_Eng_News which said “In Nigeria pirates kidnapped seven Russians and the citizen of Ukraine’’

Ruslan TradVerified account ‏@ruslantrad had #BREAKING: pirates took hostage 8 sailors from #Russia and #Ukraine in the territorial waters of #Nigeria.

It said “In connection with the seizure of the Embassy of the Russian Federation requested the authorities of Nigeria’s assistance in locating the stolen.’’

sweerychick:
Make Putin catch una

Atmmachine:


Good for them

This is what you get when you collaborate with the government of a country to suck up the oil, take all the jobs and leave the cizitens of that country unemployed

Go to the oil wells all over Nigeria, all you will see are white men

AngelicBeing:
Hunger in the land has made some guys desperate to survive, instead of attacking innocent people, the pirates should face all the criminals in Abuja, especially they should go after all the federal Ministers, commissioners, state governors, National assembly members, nonsense

rman:


Do you have the requsite skills?

Engrobiorah:

DSS dey nairaland oo

Who cares , they should kidnap the head of DSS sef and keep him in the creek for 500 years and feed him with scorpions

AngelicBeing:
Who cares , they should kidnap the head of DSS sef and keep him in the creek for 500 years and feed him with scorpions

Engrobiorah:

Report to our office by 10am tomorrow morning

Atmmachine:


Kid

The last time i checked, Russian is a weak ass country

Why not go to the kitchen