The French navy on Friday escorted a tanker to port in the Gulf of Guinea after pirates abandoned the vessel and kidnapped some of the crew, the ship's owner told Reuters.
The Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker Monjasa Reformer with 16 crew members was last weekend hijacked by five armed assailants 140 miles west of the Republic of Congo's Port Pointe-Noire.
The hijackers abandoned the ship late on Thursday but took some crew members with them, Danish shipping company Monjasa, which owns the vessel, said on Friday.
