All crew members of an oil tanker that was stormed by British naval special forces after a group of stowaways threatened violence are “safe and well,” the ship‘s operator confirmed Monday.
Commandos from the Special Boat Service, the elite maritime counterterrorism unit of Britain’s Royal Navy, were lowered by rope from helicopters onto the Nave Andromeda, whose crew had locked themselves in a secure part of the ship known as the citadel. Within minutes, the seven stowaways, believed to be Nigerian asylum-seekers, were in custody.
The ship had left Lagos, Nigeria, on Oct. 6 and had been due to dock in Southampton on Sunday morning. The raid followed a 10-hour standoff as the tanker circled an area a few miles southeast of the Isle of Wight, south of Southampton.
The SBS are an outfit you’d never want to get into a fight with. They’re a group of incredibly well trained ‘hooligans’ - Utterly ruthless.
Are the hijackers dead at least?
This is a dream sceenplay I always threatened to write. Modern pirates steal a tanker of oil.
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