The local representative of the shipping company Captain, S. H. R. Kumar has told the local media that the 11 sailors who were held hostage for nearly 10 months by the Somali pirates will return to the country tomorrow.
According to Captain Kumar, the Sri Lankan sailors have already left the Omani port of Salalah and were heading for the capital Muscat where they are scheduled to board a flight to Colombo.
The Saudi vessel Al Nisr was hijacked by Somali pirates on March 8 this year and was released on December 7 after the ship owner paid a ransom of US$ 20 million to the pirates.
Somali pirates hijacked the ship in the Gulf of Aden on March 1 with 13 Sri Lankan crew members and the Greek Captain on board while the 5,136-ton ship was returning to Jeddah from Japan on its maiden voyage.
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