Pirates kidnap 15 sailors in attack on Turkish container ship off Nigeria


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  • Sunday, 24 Jan 2021

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pirates off Nigeria's coast kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish container ship in the Gulf of Guinea on Saturday in a brazen and violent attack that was farther from shore than usual.

One sailor was killed in the raid, an Azerbaijani citizen, while those kidnapped are from Turkey, according to the respective governments and a crew list seen by Reuters.

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