MOSCOW. Oct 22 (Interfax) - The Russian sailors abducted in Nigeria are alive and in good health, Russian Charge D'Affaires in Nigeria Alexander Chernov told Interfax on Monday.
"We have precise information that our sailors are alive and in good health; they are being treated normally," he said.
"A delicate and careful process of the establishment of contact with the abductors is on," Chernov said.
The embassy is energetically working on the release of the Russian sailors; it stays in touch with the shipping company Bourbon and the task force set up at the Nigerian Presidential Administration to search for and liberate the sailors.
Pirates attacked the Bourbon Liberty 249 tugboat of the French shipping company Bourbon off Brass in the Nigerian territorial waters on October 15.
The ship services oilrigs along the southern coastline of Nigeria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Six Russians and one Estonian were abducted from the tugboat.