Four foreigners kidnapped by pirates in Nigeria
August 5th, 2012 - 12:04 am ICT by IANSLagos, Aug 4 (IANS) Two Nigerian Navy officers were killed and four foreigners — a Malaysian, an Iranian, a Thai and an Indonesian — were Saturday taken hostage by suspected pirates, Xinhua reported.
The officers were killed in an attack by gunmen on a ship in southeast Rivers state, said navy spokesperson Commodore Kabir Aliyu.
He said the navy has sent warships and helicopters for a rescue mission.
Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, has recorded a total of 293 cases of sea robbery and pirate attacks between 2003 and 2008.
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