A crew of four Indian seafarers who spent two years stranded “like modern day slaves” on a ship in Mumbai in horrific conditions have finally gone home, thanks to help from Sailors’ Society.
The men ran out of food, the electricity supply was turned off, cockroaches infested the ship and one of them was bitten by a rat during their nightmare on board the ship, after the owners filed for bankruptcy and liquidators took over the vessel.
Three months ago, they stopped receiving their salaries. The...