Niger River Delta

18 people were injured in an explosion and fire that erupted aboard an oil tanker at the South Korean port of Ulsan. This was reported by BGNES.

Twelve sailors were injured, nine of them are South Korean citizens, three foreigners, as well as six rescuers. They have received burns or have been poisoned with smoke. One of the Koreans is in critical condition. 

Ten Turkish sailors who were kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria, were released on Aug. 9

Initiatives are being taken to release 10 Turkish sailors who had been abducted off Nigeria, according to Turkey's Foreign Ministry on July 17.

Pirates kidnapped six people from the crew of a cargo ship of a German company near the coast of Nigeria, reports Der Spiegel. The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday.

The Demeter ship has been attacked shortly before landing in a port in Nigeria. There were no German citizens on the vessel at the time of the attack, said Peter Döhle, based in Hamburg.

Two Turkish construction workers abducted by gunmen earlier this month in oil-rich southern Nigeria have been freed, police said April 21. 

The workers for BKS Construction Company were released on April 19 and "have been reunited with their colleagues after medical assessment," police commissioner Donald Awunah told reporters.

Pirates have attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, kidnapping six crew members in a region increasingly hit by piracy in recent years, the Nigerian navy said on April 11.