External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said that the release order for all Indian nationals from Kerala, serving prison term in African nation Togo, have been secured.
"We have secured the release of five Indians from Kerala jailed in Togo," Sushma said in a tweet.
"They were arrested in July 2013 for their suspected involvement in a piracy attack off the coast of Togo,"
The crew, who are employees of a Merchant Navy firm, had set sail for South Africa on October, 2013 from Mumbai. While returning in the month of July, 2014, their ship got stranded in Nigeria and the entire crew was arrested for violating laws of international waters.
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