{"id":56046,"date":"2019-12-23T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56046"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:10:58","slug":"18-indians-kidnapped-by-pirates-near-nigerian-coast-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56046","title":{"rendered":"18 Indians Kidnapped By Pirates Near Nigerian Coast Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 23 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Eighteen Indians, who were kidnapped by pirates near the Nigerian coast, had been released, officials said today (Monday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Nigerian Navy and Shipping Company confirmed the release of 18 Indian nationals, taken hostage from MT Nave Constellation on Dec 3. Thank all stakeholders involved in their safe release,&#8221; Indian high commission in Abuja, posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the reports of kidnapping of the Indians, the Indian mission in Nigeria approached Nigerian authorities for help, to ascertain their details and ensure the rescue of the abducted Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to officials, 19 people were kidnapped from a Hong Kong-flagged commercial vessel, out of which 18 were Indians.&#8211; NNN-PTI  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 23 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Eighteen Indians, who were kidnapped by pirates near the Nigerian coast, had been released, officials said today (Monday). &#8220;The Nigerian Navy and Shipping Company confirmed the release of 18 Indian nationals, taken hostage from MT Nave Constellation on Dec 3. Thank all stakeholders involved in their safe release,&#8221; Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56046"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}