Romanian sailors return home

The crew of the Italian ship Buccaneer, captured by pirates in April in the Aden bay and set free on August 9 to 10 will arrive, Thursday night at Rome, Italy. Romania’s Embassay to Italy declared that Romanian sailors will be brought home with a special plane, that will land in Italy.

Members of the family will be waiting for them, together with representatives of the Romanian Embassy to Rome. The five Romanians and their families will return to Romania on Friday, August 14.

Romanian news agency Mediafax informs that four of the five sailors are from Constanta, South East Romania and the fifth is from Bucharest. Italian press reads that the pirates received some 2-3 million dollars to set the sailors free.