( The Guilty Pirates )

Maltese-flagged vessel accompanying 24 Indian crew hijacked in West-Central Africa. In the middle of statements of West Africa, especially the Gulf of Guinea, seemly a hotbed of pirate activity, a cargo-laden Maltese-flagged chemical tanker accompanying a 24-member Indian crew has been declared to have been hijacked by pirates off Port Gentil in the West-Central African island nation of Gabon.

The prominent fact that m.v. Cotton, owned by a Turkish company, was hijacked by the believed guilty pirates on Sunday as it was just heading towards entering the port to unload its cargo of about 10,000 tonnes of chemical oils.

During the present position of the vessel is not immediately been revealed otherwise located, not acknowledging with with definite assurance statements mentioned that it was commandeered to the Nigerian coast, which has turned into a shelter of safety for sea pirates recently. The phantom of piracy leading downward on West Africa was prominently mentioned by the International Maritime Bureau in its recent statement. There has been an anticipation  piracy experts regarding the vessel that it was hijacked intending of burglarize cargo.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)