The Antigua and Barbuda-flagged container ship City of Xiamen container ship was some 45nm off the coast of southern Nigeria when it was attacked, said the IMB. The pirates escaped taking with with them the five crew members as hostages and cash taken from the ship’s safe.
The attack is the latest in a growing trend of piracy incidents in West Africa, and follows the recent attack on container ship Hansa Marburg.
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