4 Sep, 2025 @ 16:10
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BREAKING: Armed men storm ship off Portugal coast

Portuguese Helicopter: Credit: Marinhas Portuguesa

ARMED men have stormed a merchant ship off Portugal’s Algarve coast in the early hours of Thursday, taking crew members hostage in a dramatic high-seas raid.

The Liberian-flagged container vessel, which had sailed from Vigo and was bound for Malaga, was attacked about 10km off Lagos. At least two sailors were reportedly locked in the engine room by the raiders. Their condition is still unknown.

The Portuguese Navy has scrambled forces to the scene, including a helicopter packed with commandos ready to retake the ship. Warships are also on standby in case the situation turns bloody.

The motive remains a mystery – though investigators say international drug traffickers may be behind the brazen attack.

The situation is ongoing.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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