Indian sailors on hijacked Somalian ship safe

The three Indian sailors on board the Somalian ship, which was hijacked in August, are safe, said Member of Parliament Shantaram [ Images ] 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 in Panaji.

According to Sarma, such negotiations, if one goes by the history of hijacking of ships in the area, takes over a month to reach a settlement, the release said.

Anthony Clive Thimudio, a Goan sailor along with two others -- one from Karnataka [ Images ] and another Maharashtra [ Images ] – were stranded on a merchant navy ship M V Iran Deyant, which was hijacked from the Red Sea on August 21.