日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

   

Pirate attacks up 10% in 2007

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-01-10 07:46

Global pirate attacks rose by 10 percent in 2007, marking the first increase in three years as sea robbers made a strong comeback in Nigeria and Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Wednesday.

Last year, there were 269 attacks on ships, up from 239 in 2006 and reversing a downtrend seen since 2003, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said in its annual report released by its piracy reporting center in Malaysia.

"The significant increase in the (2007) numbers can be directly attributed to the increase in the incidents in Nigeria and Somalia," IMB director Pottengal Mukundan said in a statement.

Attacks in Nigeria surged to 42 from 12 cases in 2006, he said. Somalia reported a threefold increase of 31 cases, from 10 in 2006.

The IMB report said pirates were better armed and more violent in 2007, with 18 vessels hijacked worldwide, 292 crew members taken hostage, five killed and three still missing.

Guns were used in 72 attacks, up 35 percent from 2006. It said 64 crew members were assaulted and injured, compared to only 17 in 2006, with majority of the incidents occurring off Somali's coast.

The report said pirates used rocket propelled grenade launchers and automatic weapons as well as mother vessels to launch smaller craft to attack ships further away from Somali's coast.

Somalia's 3,025-km coastline is the longest in Africa and near to key shipping routes connecting the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean. Wracked by 16 years of violence and anarchy, Somalia does not have its own navy and the transitional government formed in 2004 with UN help has struggled to assert control.

The IMB urged ships to stay as far away as possible from the Somali coastline.

In Nigeria - Africa's oil producer - attacks were focused in hotspots like Lagos, and some were linked to so-called militants claiming to pursue political goals, the report said.

Indonesia remained the world's hottest piracy hotspot with 43 attacks last year, but this was down from 50 cases in 2006 and were mainly low-level crimes, the report said.

The IMB also applauded authorities in Bangladesh for curbing attacks to 15 last year, down from 47 in 2006.

Cases in the Malacca Strait, a bustling shipping route that carries half the world's oil and more than a third of its commerce, also fell for a third successive year to seven, from 11 in 2006, it said.

 



Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
主站蜘蛛池模板: 香蕉视频免费在线播放 | 亚洲免费中文字幕 | 精品久久久一区二区 | 国产精品久久一区二区三区 | 色一情一乱一乱一区91 | 成年人的视频 | 亚洲综合色在线 | 欧美粗暴jizz性欧美20 | 成人黄色片网站 | 男人的伸进里面免费网站 | 日本一道在线观看 | 伊人蜜桃| 日韩黄大片 | 亚洲一区二区影院 | 91亚洲精选| 天天操综合| 99久久婷婷国产综合 | 波多野结衣 久久 | 亚洲天堂国产精品 | 激情高潮av | 亚洲一区二区中文 | 国产第一页在线 | 韩国jizz| 欧美色图在线视频 | 欧美日韩免费在线 | av网址在线看 | 欧美人妖老妇 | 欧美另类在线视频 | 国产视频日韩 | 成人国产网站 | 黄色片子在线观看 | 精品福利一区二区三区 | av在线大全| 在线观看黄 | 伊人网伊人影院 | 免费黄色一级片 | 日韩白浆 | 黄色一级免费 | 9999久久久久| 激情综合文学 | 四虎成人精品在永久免费 |