A FRENCH tanker seized by pirates off the Ivory Coast and its crew of 17 sailors have been released.
The ship's owner said on Wednesday two crew were injured.
SEA Tankers, a shipping firm based in Merignac, France, issued a statement saying the M/T Gascogne is now under the control of its crew and is travelling safely away.
The company did not give the ship's location or describe how the ship was freed. A spokeswoman also declined to offer further details.
The two injured sailors are receiving medical care, SEA Tankers said.
The ship was hijacked by pirates Sunday off Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast. Government officials there had said the crew included seven sailors from Togo, four from Benin, two from Ivory Coast, two from Senegal and one apiece from China and South Korea. The company had been working for a South Korean firm at the time of the attack, according to Ivory Coast's Transportation Ministry.
There has been a series of escalating assaults in the Gulf of Guinea, which follows the African continent's southward curve from Liberia to Gabon.
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has escalated from low-level armed robberies to hijackings and cargo thefts. Last year, London-based Lloyd's Market Association - an umbrella group of insurers - listed Nigeria, neighbouring Benin and nearby waters in the same risk category as Somalia, where two decades of war and anarchy allowed piracy to flourish. But as piracy has dropped in recent months off Somalia's coast, it's only risen in the Gulf of Guinea.
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