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International-UN-NGOs
Weekly Piracy Report 3-9 October 2006
2006-10-10
October 07 2006 at 2145 LT in posn 05:04.7N - 098:25.7E, Malacca straits. Six boats surrounded a bulk carrier underway. Crew mustered and activated anti-piracy measures. Some of the boats closed in to 20 metres. At 2345 Lt there were two boats each ahead and astern at distance 2.0 nm. Crew maintained anti-piracy measures and after one hour and 15 mins boats stopped following the ship.

October 07.10.2006 at 0300 LT at Conakry anchorage, Guinea. Robbers boarded a general cargo ship and threw drums on deck overboard. Alert crew raised alarm and crew mustered. Robbers jumped overboard and escaped. No response from port control. Due to robbers boat is hovering around the ship, master picked up anchor and moved to open sea.

October 02 2006 at Cawthorne channel, Rivers State of the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Gunmen in speed boats attacked barges carrying fuel. Three soldiers protecting the convoy were killed. They kidnapped 25 Nigerian workers and hijacked the barges. They discharged the barges at Billie and the 25 workers are being held in that village.
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