Nigerian pirates
Seven Russians and one citizen of Ukraine — crew members of the ship BBC Caribbean — released from Nigerian captivity. This was reported by RIA Novosti, the Commissioner for human rights of the city of Sevastopol Pavel Buzy.
“The sailors of the residents of Sevastopol are already at the Frankfurt airport and from day to day will fly home, I feel fine,” said the defender.
On 7 February the Russian Embassy in Nigeria has reported the seizure by pirates of the ship BBC Caribbean. Crew members were taken hostage and taken to the pirate camp on the beach.
Pirates operating near the Nigerian coast, attacking foreign ships to seize cargo and kidnapping sailors for ransom. As a rule, negotiations after they are released, while the details and the amounts paid for prisoners, were not disclosed.
The latest incident of this kind with the Russian sailors occurred at the end of November 2016. Then, Nigerian pirates seized the refrigerator “Saronic Gulf breeze” in the territorial waters of neighbouring Benin and took with him three persons — the captain, second engineer and cook. They were released three weeks later.