PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria's restive south have hijacked an oil-services vessel carrying 11 crew members, the military said today.
The hijackers are demanding about $250,000 for the release of the boat and the crew, including one Portuguese and one Ukrainian, said military spokesman Maj. Sagir Musa.
The boat, used for maintaining oil infrastructure in Africa's biggest petroleum producer, was taken on Tuesday in the southern Niger Delta, Musa said. The situation remained unresolved today, he said, giving no further details.
Numerous armed militant and criminal groups roam the delta, a vast region of creeks, swamps and rivers but few roads. Militants frequently blow up oil infrastructure or attack security forces to press demands for more oil-industry revenues for their impoverished region.
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