Gunmen attacked a barge belonging to an oil services company off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian sailors and kidnapping four foreigners, the navy said. The gunmen stormed a vessel in the Gulf of Guinea that belongs to the Sea Trucks Group, company spokeswoman Corrie van Kessel told AFP, who confirmed that four of the firm’s employees were taken in the raid. “At this time Sea Trucks Group is making every effort to ascertain the whereabouts of its personnel,” she told AFP. Nigeria’s navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said during the attack “four expatriates are reported to have been kidnapped from the vessel; two sailors were killed.” He said those kidnapped were from Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia and Thailand. The attack took place at roughly 0100 on Saturday, 35 nautical miles off Nigeria’s oil rich coastal area in the Gulf of Guinea, the navy and the company said.
