MOSCOW, August 29 (Reporter Cao Yan) Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on the 29th, the 28th was in Togo waters pirates hijacked a tanker with 23 Russian citizens, they do not have life-threatening.
The statement said, according to information provided by the tanker company, looted tanker with 23 Russian crew members and one Greek nationality captain. Hijacking incident, the company to get in touch with the captain and was told the crew not life-threatening.
 
The statement said that the Russian Foreign Ministry is in close contact with local authorities to ensure the safety of Russian citizens on the tanker.
 
28 am local time, a ship carrying 24 were operated by a Greek tanker hijacked by pirates in Togo waters. After the incident, the Togolese army rushed to the accident site and exchanged fire with the pirates, but failed to control the oil tanker.
 
It is said that the hijacked tanker containing 50,000 tons of diesel and gasoline, pirates implementation hijacking is to these supplies.

According to the International Maritime Bureau of Statistics, in the first half of this year, although the number of pirate attacks worldwide is a significant reduction compared to the same period last year, but the waters of West Africa there were 32 pirate attacks, an increase of seven over the same period last year.
 



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