Puntland,(insidesomalia.org)-In desperate condition, often weak from diseases and wracked with despair, foreign hostages kidnapped by Somali pirates are suffering from Malaria, cold and other pains-elder in Almadow area near Puntland  told Mareeg online.

After The elder whose name Abdullahi Abdi Ibrahim has visited the hostages he says that some of the hostages have mental ill soreness after bouts of illness for long jailbird, and frustration after months in the hands of pirates.

"It is not the physical pain that wounds us, nor the chains on our necks that torment us or the constant sickness ... it's the mental agony of the irrationality of all this," says the elder who was quoting the words of one hostage.

"It seems that we are worthless, that we do not exist." He added.

The elder has expressed additional concern on the livelihood of the hostages.

For the last time I have seen them they said to me “please tell our government to pay ransom if other we will be in danger”

The elder didn’t put in the picture the nationality of those hostages.