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Two-month ordeal was nightmare: captain
In a first letter sent from on board Mt Stolt Valor, the Japanese merchant vessel that Somalian pirates hijacked two months back and released on Sunday, the ship's master Captain Prabhat Kumar Goyal has termed the ordeal a "nightmare".
- IANS
- Published: 23:40 November 18, 2008
New Delhi: In a first letter sent from on board Mt Stolt Valor, the Japanese merchant vessel that Somalian pirates hijacked two months back and released on Sunday, the ship's master Captain Prabhat Kumar Goyal has termed the ordeal a "nightmare".
"It was not only an ordeal but also a nightmare for all of us on board the Stolt Valor," Goyal noted in a written communication to the Director General Communication.
Mt Stolt Valor, with 22 crewmembers including 18 Indians, was hijacked by a group of Somalian pirates off the Yemen coast September 15 while it was bound for Mumbai from the Suez Canal. The pirates took the vessel to the Somalian coast and demanded a ransom of $2 million (Dh7.34 million).
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