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They have been the 41 happened incidents of marine piracy in according to trimester of this year (- 7%)
In the first six months of the 2018 they have been 107 (+23%)
August 3, 2018
In according to trimester of this year actions of piracy against the ships, after a precedence quarterly period in which they had grown of +54%, they have marked a decrement of the -7% having been it are 41 regarding 44 in according to trimester of 2017. The boarded ships have been 30 so as in the period April-june last year and the ships that have been object of trying I attack have been 19 regarding four in according to trimester of 2017. The two marine ones taken hostage, four that kidnapped and wounded regarding 32 marine taken, 14 hostage kidnapped ones and no wounded in according to trimester last year.
In the first six months of the 2018 incidents they have been 107 regarding 87 in the first half last year. The boarded ships have been 69, that object of trying attack 23 and those seizing four regarding 63 ships boarded, eight against which it is tried I attack and four seized in the first semester of 2017. The marine ones taken hostage have been 102, those kidnapped 25 (all in occasion of six incidents happened in the Gulf of Guinea) and those marine wounded three regarding 63 taken hostage, 41 kidnapped, three wounded ones and two marine ones killed in the course of the happened incidents of marine piracy in the first six months last year.
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