{"id":100492,"date":"2020-11-09T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=100492"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:58:04","slug":"pirates-attacked-danish-owned-tanker-in-gulf-of-guinea-crew-unharmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=100492","title":{"rendered":"Pirates attacked Danish-owned tanker in Gulf of Guinea, crew unharmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Danish-owned-tanker-attacked-in-Gulf-of-Guinea-1103299?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/892\/89293906.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of a pirate\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PORTO-NOVO, Nov 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Danish shipping company Torm said one of its tankers was attacked by suspected pirates in the Gulf Of Guinea on Saturday, but the 20-strong crew was reported unharmed.<br><br>The crew of the Torm Alexandra, which was sailing off the coast of Benin, saw suspected pirates approach the 183-metres long vessel and took refuge in a designated security room, Torm spokesman Joakim Norholm Vasehus said.<br><br>It was not known whether the suspected pirates were still on board and the crew, comprising 19 Filipinos and one person from Montenegro, was still in the security room, Vasehus said.<br><br>The tanker left Lome in Togo on Friday and was heading for Libreville, Gabon. Torm&#8217;s fleet is specialized in carrying refined oil products.<br><br>Maritime piracy and armed robbery are a recurring threat to ships in the Gulf of Guinea. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTO-NOVO, Nov 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Danish shipping company Torm said one of its tankers was attacked by suspected pirates in the Gulf Of Guinea on Saturday, but the 20-strong crew was reported unharmed. The crew of the Torm Alexandra, which was sailing off the coast of Benin, saw suspected pirates approach the 183-metres long vessel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":100493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}