Indian sailors on hijacked Somalian ship safe: Naik Panaji, Sept 09: Three Indian sailors onboard the Somalian ship, which was hijacked last month, are safe, said MP Shantaram Naik.
The Union Shipping Ministry has confirmed the safety of all the three sailors, including a Goan, onboard the hijacked ship, he said. The secretary to Shipping Ministry A P V N Sarma has informed that the negotiations were going on between the pirates and the owner of the ship, Naik said in a statement released here. According to Sarma, such negotiations, if one goes by the history of hijacking of ships in the area, takes not less than one month to reach a settlement, the release said. Anthony Clive Thimudio, a Goan sailor along with two others -- one from Karnataka and another Maharashtra - were stranded on a merchant navy ship M V Iran Deyant which was hijacked from the Red Sea on August 21. http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=467814&sid=NAT ~(^^)~ Avelino
