Crew members filmed how their ship was attacked by pirates – News

“We were right to hire guards, otherwise we would be screwed,” said one of the sailors amid the shooting.

The attack was neutralized by fire from Kalashnikov assault rifles and a machine gun., as revealed by a video posted by the crew themselves in Youtube.

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“Watch out for the crew! We are being attacked by pirates! The whole crew must take refuge in the interior compartments!”, We hear one of the ship’s controllers, possibly the captain, say.

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Pirates attacked a ship with Russian-speaking crew members traveling from Norway to Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea, but a group of armed guards hired by the victims repelled the attack. pic.twitter.com/dx8i8rfSvM

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At the moment, the date on which the events occurred and the country under whose flag the vessel is sailing are unknown.

Despite the fact that more and more ships have armed private guards, episodes of this type do not end in this region of the African Atlantic coast..

Last weekend, another Maltese-flagged vessel was attacked by pirates while sailing in the Gulf of Guinea, according to the maritime security company. World Dryad in Twitter.