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BAGHDAD — Gunmen robbed four commercial ships anchored near the southern oil hub of Basra in a rare attack off Iraq’s coast, the U.S. Navy said Sunday.
Two men armed with AK-47 rifles boarded the American ship Sagamore in the northern Persian Gulf at 4 a.m. on Aug. 8, taking computers, cellphones and money from crew members before fleeing the vessel after about 40 minutes on board, according to Lt. John Fage, a spokesman for the Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
He said three other ships — the Antigua-flagged Armenia, the North Korean Crystal Wave and the Syrian Sana Star — were robbed under similar circumstances during a two-hour period that day.
Fage said he had no other information about the attackers or their nationalities.
