Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Gangsters

Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Gangsters

2011 • 384 pages

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On 23 October 2009, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were kidnapped from their sailing boat in the archipelago of the Seychelles. Naval forces and search rescue centres did not swing into full action until the story broke on 27 October, when Somali pirates informed the media that the couple were in their hands.


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