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Danish hostages freed after two years in captivity JUSTIN CREMER Two seamen, Søren Lyngbjørn and Eddy Lopez and four Filipino colleagues released by Somali pirates after 40 million kroner ransom is paid
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WO DANISH seamen who have been held captive for over two years were freed on Tuesday. The two Danes, Søren Lyngbjørn and Eddy Lopez, were released by the Somali pirates who had held them since January 2011. Also released were four Filipinos. The pirates were paid a ransom that TV2 News reports was around 40 million kroner. Shipcraft, the shipping company
that employed Lyngbjørn and Lopez, confirmed that they had paid “considerably more” than what had been paid in other kidnapping situations, but would not confirm the ransom amount. PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Socialdemokraterne) expressed joy about the release on Facebook. “It is terrific news that doesn’t just relieve my heart, but likely relieves the hearts of all of Denmark,” the PM wrote. “I would like to send a warm greeting to the seamen and their family. They have been through a terrible ordeal. Now they are in safety and can begin their way back to a normal life.” Lyngbjørn and Lopez were working aboard the MV Leopard when Somali pirates hijacked the ship in the Indian
Ocean on 12 January 2011. They were shortly thereafter transferred to land and held in an unknown location in Somalia. Lyngbjørn is reported as being in very poor health and unable to walk. In their first media interview since being freed, Lopez spoke to TV2 News and said that they were obviously happy that their long ordeal was over. “It feels great. Now that we can see the end to this whole thing, we are of course very happy,” Lopez said. “It was 27 and a half months, and we were tortured, we were beaten and we did not have enough food. We have been sick, but now I have faith.” Lopez said that Lyngbjørn was suffering from some sort of nerve infection and needed to go immediately to a hos-
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Eddy Lopez (left) and Søren Lyngbjørn (right), along with their four Filipino colleagues, spent 838 days in captivity
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