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Stan Ayscue from Securewest International spoke at a recent conference for maritime security experts in Washington, DC:
“You’re looking at militants spraying the wheelhouse with machine gun fire before they even get on board. Once they are on board, beating crews with rifle butts, being whipped with electrical cables, and stabbed and shot quite openly.”
The threat of piracy and violence in the Gulf of Guinea continues to grow, check out this recent video…
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