Hope for kidnapped South African cruising sailors

7:29 AM Tue 30 Nov 2010 GMT

'Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz - hope alive for their safety' .

While South African authorities have not yet heard from the Somali pirates who kidnapped two South African cruising sailor over a month ago they believe that the two are alive. According to Andrew Mwangura, officer of a seaman's something in Kenya, and whose information in the past has been extremely accurate, Bruno Pelizzari and his girlfriend, Debbie Calitz, abducted from a yacht south of Dar es Salaam, were moved to Mogadishu. This followed a 'misunderstanding' between their captors and an Islamic pirate group which has a religious agenda. 'They (the gunmen) are now talking to find a solution,' Mwangura said. ...

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