ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen seized a Nigerian-owned Panama-flagged tanker off Ivory Coast's port of Abidjan as it prepared to unload 5,000 tonnes of fuel, port officials said in a statement on Monday.
Port agents said they lost contact with the ship, named the ITRI and owned by Lagos-based Brila Energy, shortly after midnight on Thursday.
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