India is really grateful to you! Nigerian Navy safely releases 18 kidnapped Indians

Abuja, December 23: Eighteen Indians, kidnapped by pirates from a commercial vessel near the Nigerian coast on December 3, have been released by the Nigerian navy. The Indian mission in Nigeria officially informed this on Sunday.

 

 

 

According to ARX Maritime, a global agency tracking maritime developments in the region, 19 people, including 18 Indians, were kidnapped from the ship on December 3 after it was taken over by the pirates. They were kidnapped from a Hong Kong-flagged vessel off the Bonny island after a group of pirates took control of it. The mission had taken up with the Nigerian government the kidnapping of the Indian crew of the vessel.

 

India’s mission in Nigeria approached the African nation’s authorities for help to ascertain the details and rescue the abducted Indians. The Indian group caused Nigeria to release the ship's crew. Immediately following the ship's arrival, the Indian Foreign Ministry intervened and called the Nigerian federal government. Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs V Muraleedharan has stated which he would try everything feasible to save lots of the staff.

 

 

 

In recent days, robbery is increasing within the West African Sea. On the December 16, another shipwreck had occurred. The ship, the Duke of Marshall Island, is struck.