The 23 Bangladeshi seafarers hijacked aboard a bulker on Tuesday off the coast of Somalia will be killed if their ransom is not paid.
The Somali pirates who hijacked their vessel promised to kill them all.
Atiq Ullah Khan, the Chief Officer of MV Abdullah, passed this message to his wife earlier today.
Khan told his wife that the pirates have taken hold of their mobile phones. He added that the pirates vowed to start killng the sailors one by one.