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schema:articleBody	A tanker ship hijacked in the Gulf of Guinea has been freed after two days, French energy giant Total said Thursday, adding that the Maria E was making for port in Equatorial Guinea and all its crew were safe. But there is still no sign of the 14-strong crew of a Chinese tuna fishing boat attacked on Sunday and believed to have been used as a base for attempts to hijack several tankers, including the Maria E, maritime security consultancy Dryad Global said. Armed attackers boarded the Maria E off Sao Tome and Principe, climbing aboard as the crew holed up in the ship's "citadel" armoured safe room. Dryad Global said they were still inside when the ship was found drifting the following day. The Maria E was "freed, the crew is safe and sound and the ship is already close to Malabo" where it had originally been headed, Total's director in Equatorial Guinea Philippe Prudent told AFP. The French energy giant is the owner of the fuel being transported by the ship on its way to petrol stations around the country. Neither Total nor Equatorial Guinea officials contacted by AFP gave details of how the ship was "freed". Meanwhile Dryad Global said that the Gabonese-flagged Lianpengyu 809 fishing boat was attacked Sunday by pirates on fast boats off Port-Gentil in Gabon. The consultancy added that the 14-strong crew from China, Indonesia and Gabon must either still be aboard or have been taken ashore in Nigeria. In recent years, the Gulf of Guinea region stretching along Africa's west coast from Senegal to Angola has become a hotspot for ship hijackings, with the attackers holding their crews for ransom. Most of the pirates involved in the crimes are Nigerian. Crew training company Bureau International Maritime said in a recent report that pirate attacks on ships had jumped 20 percent year-on-year in 2020, driven by activity in the Gulf of Guinea. Out of 135 crew kidnapped worldwide, 130 of them were taken in the region, as pirates increasingly find ransoming crews more lucrative than thefts from their ships' cargoes. sam-gir/tgb/pvh
schema:headline	Total says hijacked tanker in Gulf of Guinea freed
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schema:datePublished	2021-02-11 (xsd:date)
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