Pirates kill oil worker in Tarabora creek Bayelsa

An oil worker under the employ of Italian energy firm Eni has been killed by pirates. The worker was on a boat belonging to the firm’s local subsidiary Agip in the Niger Delta region. The military said on Friday.
“The boat conveying some staff of Agip was attacked by sea robbers and one of the staff of the company died when he was attempting to escape and drowned,” Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesman for Nigeria’s military joint task force, told Reuters.
Nwachukwu also confirmed that two staff of the oil company went missing after the attack on the boat in the Tarabora creek in Bayelsa.
Pirates off the coast of Nigeria tend to raid ships for cash and cargo rather than hijacking the crews for ransom like their counterparts off the coast of Somalia
Onshore kidnapping has been a recurring decimal in Nigeria especially in the neglected oil producing Niger Delta region.