Report of Chandler ransom part-paid, British Somalis to pay balance

8:52 PM Sun 27 Jun 2010 GMT

'Chandlers under guard during interview with Channel 4 in November 2009' .

An unconfirmed report says that a clan chief of the pirate gang holding kidnapped sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler has claimed that they have received over half the ransom being demanded. The money, he claimed, was handed over to elders of the clan by an agent, and had come from the family of the Chandlers. Paul and Rachel Chandler, both in their 50s, were kidnapped while they sailed their 38-foot (12-metre) yacht Lynn Rival in international waters between the Seychelles and Tanzania last October. 'We have received $430,000, which is part of the $800,000 ransom agreed to pay to the ...

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by Des Ryan