YENAGOA, NIGERIA - At least one person was pronounced dead when the pirates attacked a Nigerian to perform an action vessel owned Italian energy company, Eni Agip subsidized in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Friday.
"The ship is carrying some staff Agip was attacked by pirates and one of the company's staff died when he tried to run away and drowned," said Onyema Nwachukwu, a spokesman with the Nigerian military task force, told Reuters.
Attacks that occurred on the river in the state Bayesla Tarabora it also makes the two missing staff of Agip.
Pirates off the coast of Nigeria was often in action. But unlike the pirates in Somalia are often asked for ransom, they attacked the ships to get cash and luggage (cargo).
But the kidnapping of land is the main business in Nigeria, especially in coastal areas such as oil-producing Bayelsa.
West Africa is a region that piracy rates continue to deteriorate. The attacks in the Gulf of Guinea has risen in recent months because the area includes a variety of countries, a source of development of oil, cocoa and metals that are sent to the world market.