Confusion in Gulf of Guinea as ‘hijacking’ said to be Nigerian military operation

Confusion surrounds the latest reports of a tanker hijacking in the Gulf of Guinea.

Security companies and piracy reporting bodies said the unnamed vessel was boarded by pirates at 5.30pm local time (1630 GMT) roughly 100 km southwest of Benin’s port city of Cotonou.

But on Wednesday morning, Greek security company Diaplous Group released new information that the incident was a “false alarm.”