New Delhi: The oil vessel hijacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast was set free by the Nigerian Navy on Wednesday evening. All the crew members including 22 Indian sailors are safe and have been taken to a safe port.
MT Abu Dhabi Star was hijacked around 14 nautical miles from the entrance to Lagos port on Tuesday evening.
Piracy offshore of Nigeria and other countries in West Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea is on the increase, and the region is second only to the waters off Somalia for the risk of pirate attacks, which drives up shipping insurance costs. It nets huge sums for armed gangs from stolen cargo, although unlike their Somali counterparts they rarely ask for ransoms, releasing crew as soon as they've looted the vessel.
With Additional Inputs from PTI
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