Libya coast guard seizes tanker, detains 12 Russians

[WorldNews]

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Libya's coast guard said Thursday it had intercepted a Russian-flagged tanker suspected of carrying an illegal shipment of petrol and detained 12 crew members from Russia. "We received a signal on the presence of a ship transporting an illegal cargo of petrol near Zuwara," 160 kilometres (100 miles) west of Tripoli, on Wednesday, Captain Taoufik Mohamad Assakir, operations chief for central Libya, told AFP. In March 2014, the US Navy intercepted and boarded the North Korean tanker "Morning Glory" loaded with an illegal oil shipment in the eastern Mediterranean and escorted it back to Libya, although it later escaped back to sea.

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