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(c) (i) destroys such a fixed platform; or
(ii) causes damage to it, which damage is likely to endanger the safety of that fixed platform;
(d) places or causes to be placed on a fixed platform, by any means whatsoever, a device or substance, which is likely to destroy that fixed platform or likely to endanger its safety; or
(e) injures or kills any person in connection with the commission of any of the acts referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d),
is guilty of an offence relating to the hijacking, destroying or endangering of a fixed platform.
(2) Any person who, for the purpose of intimidating a population, or to compel a government or an international organisation to do or to abstain or refrain from doing any act intentionally—
(a) uses against or on a fixed platform or discharges from a fixed platform any explosive or other lethal device in a manner that causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury or damage;
(b) discharges from a fixed platform, oil, liquefied natural gas or another hazardous, poisonous or noxious substance, in such quantity or concentration that causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury or damage; or
(c) uses any other means to disable, damage or render useless a fixed platform,
is guilty of an offence.
7. Offences relating to taking hostage
Any person who intentionally—
(a) seizes or detains; and
(b) threatens to kill, to injure or to continue to detain,
any other person (hereinafter referred to as a hostage), in order to compel a third party, namely a State, an intergovernmental organisation, a natural or juridical person, or a group of persons to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage, is guilty of an offence of taking a hostage.