Gunmen have kidnapped two
Lithuanian and two Ukrainian sailors off southern Nigeria, in the latest
incident in a region described as a piracy hotspot, Lithuania's government said
Tuesday.
"We have received
information that it was an armed abduction," government official Rimantas
Vaitkus told AFP in the Baltic state's capital, Vilnius.
He said 19 sailors were on
board the ship, comprising three Ukrainians and 16 Lithuanians, but refused to
disclose the name of the vessel.
"We have not received any
contact from the abductors so far," he added.
The government said the ship,
flagged in the Comoro Islands, was attacked on Monday evening near Nigeria's
oil hub, Port Harcourt.
Scores of kidnappings for
ransom have occurred in the Niger Delta, and most of the hostages have been
freed after payment of a ransom.
The Lithuanian government said
it had set up a task force to deal with the latest incident.
Source: Yahoo News
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