Singapore-flagged tanker boarded by pirates near Ivory Coast

The Singapore-flagged tanker was said to have been boarded by pirates off Abdijan on Monday. PHOTO: MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS FOR TRADE - GULF OF GUINEA

SINGAPORE, April 11 (The Straits Times/ANN): A Singapore-flagged tanker was boarded by pirates around 570km from the Ivory Coast at about 10pm on Monday.

The incident was first flagged by the Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade-Gulf of Guinea, a joint maritime monitoring effort by France and the United Kingdom. It said that an “unknown number” of pirates had boarded the tanker about 300 nautical miles south of the city of Abidjan.