Following an alert issued by MDAT-GoG on April 30th that a MV had been attacked in position 03°30’N 003°49E’ at 1940Z by a skiff with an unknown number of armed pirates, Dryad reports that ten crew were feared kidnapped from a product tanker.
I assume the two incidents are one and the same. SeaTrade Maritime reported the following:
Ten seafarers are reported to have been kidnapped by pirates from the product tanker Vemahope off Nigeria.
An unknown number of pirates in speedboat are reported to have boarded the 6,152 dwt product tanker Vemahope and kidnapped 10 seafarers, according to Dryad Global.
The Greek-owned tanker was 178 nm SSE of Lagos at the time of the incident.
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