British couple held by Somali pirates could be free within days

Published: 7:30AM GMT 04 March 2010

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Professor Mohamed Omar Dalha, emissary orator of the council in the East African state, has claimed that negotiations for the pair"s recover were surpassing fast and affianced that they would be liberated "within ten days", according to the Daily Mail.

The squad that kidnapped the Chandlers from their yacht have pronounced they wish a �1.3million ransom and have in jeopardy to fire the integrate if they don"t get the money.

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But Professor Dalha claimed the pirates were close to relenting and releasing the Chandlers, whose health has suffered severely given their apprehension began.

"We have sent a deputy to Haradheere [the district of Somalia where the Chandlers are being held] and for the past week talks with the pirates have been going on day and night," he told the Daily Mail.

"We are delectable to them by their normal and eremite leaders, as well as their own brothers and sisters - people they know and certitude - and at last they are listening.

"We are assured that the Chandlers will be expelled inside of a week or ten days at most, but condition. I am positively assured that by the finish of subsequent week they will be on their approach home to Britain."

Mr Chandler, 60, and his wife, 56, were prisoner on October twenty-three as they sailed from the Seychelles to Tanzania.