{"id":21449,"date":"2015-11-27T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/polish-sailors-kidnapped-from-szafir-cargo-ship\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T09:38:35","slug":"polish-sailors-kidnapped-from-szafir-cargo-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/polish-sailors-kidnapped-from-szafir-cargo-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish sailors kidnapped from Szafir cargo ship off Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Five Polish sailors have been abducted from a ship off the coast of Nigeria.}<\/p>\n<p>Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said the men &#8211; including a captain and three officers &#8211; were kidnapped on Thursday night from the cargo ship Szafir.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates boarded the vessel as it travelled from Belgium to Nigeria, according to Polish media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven other sailors evaded capture, apparently by locking themselves in the engine room.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Waszczykowski said they were safe and their ship had been located about 30 nautical miles off the coast of Nigeria. The exact location has not been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister told a news conference on Friday that the kidnappers had not yet established contact.<\/p>\n<p>There is widespread concern about the rise in piracy off West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Szafir, owned by the shipping company EuroAfrica, was carrying metal and other items, according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9408 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abduct.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria&#039;s coast guard is working to deter piracy, which is common off the country&#039;s shores \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>SOURCE:BBC:[Polish sailors kidnapped from Szafir cargo ship off Nigeria->Polish sailors kidnapped from Szafir cargo ship off Nigeria]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Five Polish sailors have been abducted from a ship off the coast of Nigeria.} Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said the men &#8211; including a captain and three officers &#8211; were kidnapped on Thursday night from the cargo ship Szafir. Pirates boarded the vessel as it travelled from Belgium to Nigeria, according to Polish media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070437,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21449.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21449.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21449.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21449.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21449.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21449.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21449"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21449"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}