New reports have said that another set of four Koreans aboard a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Guinea have been abducted by pirates who are on rampage in the region. In May of this year, all five members of a crew onboard a Ghanaian-registered fishing vessel, Atlantic Princess, were captured by pirates off the Atlantic. He added that the kidnappers shot into the Atlantic Princess, damaging it, after which some eight pirates abducted the vessel's Korean captain, three Chinese and a Russian. The vessel then stopped and seven armed pirates with AK 47 boarded the vessel,” he explained. The Iris S’s remaining 31 crew members were however unharmed and were escorted back to port by a Ghana Navy patrol boat, the report said.

Source: GhanaWeb July 16, 2021 14:26 UTC