Seven armed bandits are also said to have stormed theanchor-handling tug supply vessel Bourbon Liberty 249 in the incident lastMonday.
The fate of the six Russians and one Estonian, who were partof a 16-man crew onboard the vessel, remains unknown while French ship ownerBourbon remains tight-lipped on the case.
Bourbon had refrained from formally reporting the incidentto the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpurall last week, but has now done so.
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