A Panama-flagged bitumen tanker was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea late Monday night, with reports of gunfire during the incident.
The vessel was boarded approximately 40 nautical miles southeast of Santo Antonio do Príncipe, an island in São Tomé and Príncipe, off the west coast of Central Africa.
The attack was first reported by the Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade – Gulf of Guinea (MDAT-GoG), a maritime security cooperation centre run by the...