(Adds more ships attacked) LAGOS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen attacked six oil industry ships on the channel leading to Nigeria's largest oil and gas export complex on Bonny Island on Wednesday, oil company security sources said. Two people were injured, one of them seriously, but none of the vessels was boarded, the sources said. Bonny Island is the export point for about 400,000 barrels per day of crude oil and 18 million tonnes per year of liquefied natural gas. "Six vessels were attacked within the space of about 20 minutes," one of the sources said, asking not to be named. The ships involved were all used to service oil platforms, production vessels and rigs offshore. They normally work under contract to major oil companies and are manned by a combination of foreigners and Nigerians. "It sounds like sea pirates because there were no hostages taken," a second source said. Piracy is common along the coast of Nigeria, whose navy is unable to match the criminals in terms of mobility and firepower. These pirates are often hard to distinguish from militants whose kidnappings and attacks on Nigerian oil facilities have curbed crude production and forced thousands of foreign oil workers to flee. (Reporting by Tom Ashby)
A Red Cross official walks past the burnt area of an oil pipeline explosion in which at least 45 people were burned to death when fuel they were siphoning from a ...
