ABUJA (Reuters) - Pirates attacked a vessel operated by oil major ExxonMobil in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing a crew member and injuring another, private security contractors working in the oil industry said.
Attacks by politically motivated rebels in the delta, who last year shut down a fifth of Nigerian oil production, have subsided since a new president took office in May but armed robbers and pirates still stage sporadic raids in the creeks.
Details of Tuesday’s incident were sketchy, as is often the case with Niger Delta attacks, but three security contractors said about seven or eight gunmen in a speedboat boarded the Seamark vessel on the Bonny River, in Rivers state.
“One crew member was shot dead. They also shot the captain’s cabin door and demanded money and in that process they shot and wounded another crew member,” said one of the contractors. Full Story
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