September 22, 2010 07:09 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 09:16 pm IST - PARIS
Pirates boarded an oil industry supply vessel off Nigeria on Wednesday and seized three French seamen, in the second hostage drama for French energy workers in West Africa in less than a week.
Wednesday's drama came just six days after five French nationals working in neighbouring Niger's uranium fields were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda militants, in an unrelated attack that has already stretched French assets in the region.
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