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__**Somolia: Pirates Demand $7 Million for British Couple**__

The pirates seized a British couple while they had been travelling to Tanzania in thier yacht. The pirates demanded $7 million "We only need a little amount of $7 million" said the pirates and that the couple wouldn't be harmed unless they attacked the pirates. The couple was Paul and Rachel Chandler. They were 58 and 55 years old. They are still being held captive by the pirates, but it is thought that the Chandlers were moved to another ship and then anchored off the eastern coast of Somalia.


 * BBC NEWS**: []
 * NY TIMES**: []

I think that it is really stupid of the pirates to take some random british couple and demand $7 million in return for the couple. Also, how would you be able to trust the pirates? What if they just took the money then killed the couple because if they release the couple, the pirates have a greater chance of getting caught.

The **similarities** i found for these articles was that they were both talking about a couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, and that the pirates seized them and demanded $7 million. Also, both news articles had some of the same quotes by the pirates “We only need a little amount of $7 million,”. And both articles described that the couple was on thier yacht when they got seized. There was a lot of **differences** between the two articles. the BBC article was 2x the length of the NY TIMES article. Also the BBC article included alot more detail and a lot more quotes. Also the BBC title of the article was : //Ransom demanded for yacht couple//, while the NY TIMES was: //Somalia: Pirates Seek $7 Million for British Couple.// The titles both pretty much described the same thing, but with different words, the NY TIMES title was a bit more descriptive.