The 3 Indian sailors of Mv San Miguel freed

(BRUSSELS2) The Nigerian police have recovered the three Indian sailors who had been taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Equatorial Guinea on January 3, the Nigerian State Security Service indicated. THE MV San Miguel, of the Spanish company Martínez Hermanos and flag of Liberia, had been attacked on January 3 by pirates 20 miles from the port of Bata, according to the Spanish navy. After diverting the ship to the Cameroonian coast, the pirates freed six of the crew members. But three sailors had been held hostage, including the captain and a mechanic. In a press release published in mid-January, the head of the Spanish Navy, Admiral Jaime Muñoz-Delgado showed himself " worried of the increase in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, where pirates are more aggressive and violent than those operating in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast ».