Danes: Pirates off West Africa suspected of taking hostages

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Pirates are suspected of taking six hostages from a instrumentality vessel successful planetary waters successful the Gulf of Guinea earlier this week, Denmark’s subject said..

While sailing disconnected West Africa connected an planetary anti-piracy mission, the Danish navy frigate HDMS Esbern Snare responded Monday to accusation that a instrumentality vessel was nether onslaught adjacent Bioko Island disconnected Equatorial Guinea.

The frigate dispatched a Seahawk helicopter, which observed respective suspected pirates and hostages boarding a skiff stationed alongside the vessel, the Danish subject said Tuesday.

The chopper unit pursued the skiff arsenic it sailed northbound and noted that radical connected the tiny vessel threw objects overboard successful an evident effort to question faster. However, the craft had to halt erstwhile it reached the airspace supra the nationalist waters of Nigeria, wherever it is not allowed to operate.

Denmark’s frigate aboriginal received a a connection that respective unit members remained connected the instrumentality ship, including a antheral with gunshot wounds connected his little leg. He received aesculapian attraction and was transferred to the frigate, and his information is stable, the Danish subject said.

Danish subject unit besides searched for 2 much unit members from the instrumentality vessel who remained missing aft the suspected raid. The service provided nary details connected the 2 missing people.

Earlier this month, sailors from the HDMS Esbern Snare killed 4 suspected pirates and injured 1 during an speech of gunfire disconnected West Africa.