DUBAI, May 2 (UNI): Three Indian sailors, stranded here without pay for three months, finally got their emoluments at the intervention of the Dubai Immigration officials.
The salaries owed to the three and an Iranian totalled almost Dh100,000 (Rs one million).
One of them had not been paid for ten months.
The men complained that their employer had mistreated them by leaving them stranded and not paying their dues as the world celebrated International Labour Day.
The men on the Iraqi ship Mariam I docked at Al Hamriya Port in Dubai three months ago.
The ship owners later said the vessel had been sold.
Murtender Kumar (24), from India, who worked as an engineer on the ship said, ''Life is so hard here on the ship.
We are stranded and we do not know what to do.'' He said he used to work for the same employer some time ago but the ship had been held in Iraq for six months.
He joined the crew after the ship was released.