A seafarer reported missing following a raid by pirates on an offshore ship in Gabon was thrown overboard in the struggle.
This is according to Captain Sunil Kumar, the security officer of the 4,345-dwt platform supply vessel Tampen's (built 2002) Indian crewing company Proactive Ship Management.
Some of the 17 Indian crew had tried to resist the pirates, but the attackers threw the second engineer into the sea and shot the first officer and the cook, Kumar told the India's IANS news agency.
