Dipu pledges safe return of Jahan Moni hostages
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday assured the family members of Bangladeshi sailors, who kept hostage in Somalia since the hijacking of MV Jahan Moni on December 5 last year, about safe and secure return of the sailors.
She made the assurance when a group of family members called on her at the foreign ministry in the city yesterday afternoon.
This was the second time the family members of the victims met with the foreign minister seeking government's step to rescue the seamen.
“There is no way but to have patience…we are trying our best to ensure safe return of the sailors as quick as possible,” said the foreign minister.
However, an official source preferring anonymity told The Daily Star yesterday that the negotiation process to rescue the 25 sailors and wife of the captain of MV Jahan Moni was almost reached on a conclusion, but recent excessive exposure in two private TV channels make the negotiation uncertain.
The source said the pirates have agreed to release the ship and sailors with a certain amount of ransom, but after the TV interview the pirates asking more money.
In the TV reports, the captain of MV Jahan Moni through telephone interview described about their condition, how they were being treated, scarcity of food etc.
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