Rebel forces branded “terrorists” and “pirates” have hijacked a products tanker owned by Libya’s GNMTC.
Contact has been lost with the 34,700-dwt Anwaar Afriqya which has 22 crew and was en route to the volatile country from Greece.
Tripoli-based owner GNMTC said the 2004-built tanker had been “subject to an armed piracy by a group of terrorists believed to be linked to terrorists group currently based in eastern part of Libya”.
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