{"id":390142,"date":"2018-12-22T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-armed-migrants-holding-crew-hostage-on-cargo-ship-in-thames-estuary\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:58:36","slug":"prison-planet-com-armed-migrants-holding-crew-hostage-on-cargo-ship-in-thames-estuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-armed-migrants-holding-crew-hostage-on-cargo-ship-in-thames-estuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb \u2018Armed migrants holding crew hostage on cargo ship\u2019 in Thames estuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/12\/21\/stowaway-migrants-cargo-ship-holding-crew-hostage-thames-estuary-8274480\/\"><strong>London Metro<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 22, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>A cargo ship crew have locked themselves in a cabin after a group of stowaway migrants began threatening them with iron bars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essex police said they have received no reports of any injuries on board the ship in the Thames estuary, but a spokesman for the ship company said four armed stowaways are threatening staff.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said the migrants were demanding the Italian vessel, called the Grande Tema, went closer to the Kent coast so they could swim to shore.<\/p>\n<p>The ship set off from Lagos in Nigeria last Monday, and is currently off the coast of Margate in Kent. Paul Kyprianou, a spokesman for Grimaldi Lines, the operator of the ship, told Sky News: \u2018We found four stowaways on the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The vessel was coming from Nigeria and was bound to Tilbury and those four stowaways were in the cabin, and today they managed to escape from the cabin and they started threatening the crew, requesting the master of the vessel navigating very close to the coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/12\/21\/stowaway-migrants-cargo-ship-holding-crew-hostage-thames-estuary-8274480\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Saturday, December 22, 2018  at  7:01 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/armed-migrants-holding-crew-hostage-on-cargo-ship-in-thames-estuary.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/armed-migrants-holding-crew-hostage-on-cargo-ship-in-thames-estuary.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London MetroDecember 22, 2018 A cargo ship crew have locked themselves in a cabin after a group of stowaway migrants began threatening them with iron bars. 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