The pirates are demanding $4 million for their release
Family members of the South African couple captured by pirates off the Somali coast almost a year ago on Monday said they are growing increasingly desperate to have them released.
Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz were taken hostage when their yacht was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
The pirates are demanding $4 million for their release.
Calitz’s daughter Kerri-Ann Cross said the family is feeling completely powerless at the prospect that they might never see their mother again.
“Its completely out of our control, there is nothing we can do. Its horrible, we don’t know where they are and how they are doing,” she said.
The pirates are demanding a ransom of R28 million for the couple’s release, an amount their families is suggesting that they cannot pay.
Government’s policy is not to pay ransoms.
Meanwhile, an online and SMS campaign to raise the funds has now been started.
Source: Eye Witness News
