Tuesday 16 July 2013

Pirates hijack Turkish tanker with 20 Indians on board off coast of Gabon.....



Pirates hijack Turkish tanker with 20 Indians on board off coast of Gabon

 An hijack took place after 7 months.....

Pirates captured MV Cotton bearing the Maltese flag. (For representation only) 
          Pirates captured a tanker bearing the Maltese flag, but 

owned by a Turkish company off the coast of Port-Gentil, 

Gabon, media reports said on Tuesday.


             The ship - MV Cotton - reportedly had 20 crew 

members, all of them Indian.


           Reports quoted a Turkish foreign ministry official 

confirming that the incident took place on Sunday.


           As per reports, the Turkish ambassador in Gabon has 

contacted the west African country's foreign minister in 

connection with the hijack.


Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pirates-hijack-turkish-tanker-mv-cotton-with-indians-on-board-off-coast-of-gabon/1/291628.html


The further information will be updated soon in other posts..........





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