Nigerian sailors rescued a hijacked oil tanker in a dramatic night-time rescue in which they killed one pirate, the Nigerian navy announced as it escorted the ship into Lagos harbour.
Four pirates were captured while another two members of the gang escaped in a separate boat. One other pirate was killed in the army raid on the Panama-flagged Maximus, owned by a company in the United Arab Emirates, said Rear Admiral Henry Babalola.
Nigerian sailors rescued a hijacked oil tanker in a dramatic night-time rescue in which they killed one pirate, the Nigerian navy announced as it escorted the ship into Lagos harbour
One of the pirates was killed in the raid while two others fled in a boat after a tense hostage standoff
He said the navy is still searching for two crew taken hostage by two of the hijackers who are thought to have escaped in a pirate vessel.
The Indian defense attache, Captain Gautam Marwaha, said one hostage is an Indian national and the other is believed to be from Pakistan. He said they have received no ransom demand.
The bandits targeted the vessel for its 4,700 tons of diesel fuel and seized it last week on 11 February, off the coast of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The ship was finally rescued on Saturday night about 310 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Lagos.
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