UPDATE – Hijack / Ivory Coast 01-160520





INCIDENT OVER

Event: Hijack

IMB Level: 3

 

Date and Time: 15 May 2020

Location: Offshore Ivory Coast

Position: 04°09.11’N, 001°54.48’E (last known position)

Distance from Shore:
Unknown

 

Vessel Details

Type: Fishing Vessel

 

Event Details

Kidnapped: 0

Injured: 0

Killed: 0

Security Present: None

 

Threat Details

Number of Perpetrators: 10

Number of Craft: Not reported

Weapons Seen: Likely – not specified

Equipment Seen: Not reported

 

Description:  A fishing trawler is suspected hijacked whilst sailing over 100nm off Togo and Benin. All communications to her failed, and AIS has been turned off. Last
information was that she was sailing east towards Nigerian waters.

 

If hijacked, it shows the continuing threat to vessels to the west of the Niger Delta and deep offshore Lomé and Cotonou. Pirates may also use her as a mother vessel
to support attacks on larger merchant vessels.

 

Update: Vessel was confirmed as hijacked and sailing towards Nigerian waters. A Nigerian Navy vessel mobilised from Lagos to intercept the hijacked vessel. The Nigerian Navy came
across her approx. 140nm south of Lagos, and after the fishing vessel refused to stop, the Navy boarded the vessel at approx. 2145hrs, 16 May 2020. The Nigerian Navy team secured the vessel, arrested the pirates and freed the Chinese, Ghanaian and Ivorian
crew members – all crew reported as safe and uninjured. Fishing vessel was escorted to Lagos.

 

 

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