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An oil tanker off the Isle of Wight kept security and the British army busy for hours Sunday. According to the police, there were several stowaways on the “Nave Andromeda”, which sails under the Liberian flag.
Therefore, seven people were arrested. “The investigation continues. According to initial reports, the crew is safe and sound,” police said. According to the British Ministry of Defense, the military has now brought the ship under their control.
Stowaways had previously verbally threatened the ship’s crew, he said.
Landlord’s lawyers rule out kidnapping
Previously, an area of several nautical miles around the tanker had been declared a restricted zone. The helicopters and the coast guard were in action. Local media initially assumed a hijacking attempt, but the shipowner’s lawyers ruled it out, according to the BBC.
The tanker should have docked at Southhampton long ago
According to the Marinetraffic website, the “Ship Andromeda” is only a few miles off the coast of the Isle of Wight in southern England. Two British lifeboats were recently in the vicinity.
The 228-meter-long, more than 42,000-ton tanker left Nigeria in early October and should have reached the port of Southampton on Sunday morning. However, the argument with the stowaways probably prevented the arrival at first.
