Pirates kill sailor, kidnap 15 off Nigeria
Armed men killed one sailor and abducted 15 from a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported yesterday.
That left three crew members to sail the Liberian-flagged Mozart owned by a Turkish company, the state agency said. The dead man was Azerbaijani. Several crew members were wounded.
The Mozart had been en route from Lagos to Cape Town in South Africa when it was boarded on Saturday. It was now on course for nearby Gabon.
Pirate attacks on ships worldwide jumped 20 percent last year driven by a record spate of kidnappings off West Africa.
A total of 195 incidents of piracy and armed robbery were reported, up from 162 in 2019.
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