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Somali pirates chose to board a Chinese cargo vessel, but were greeted with they received a lot more than they had anticipated.
“Armed only with only beer bottles, fire hoses and homemade incendiary bombs, the crew battled against the pirates who boarded our vessel", said the captain of a Chinese cargo ship as he spoke proudly of the efforts of his crew to fight off Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
The Chinese sailors prepared themselves as best they could, fully aware of the threat to shipping in the area, in spite of facing very heavy odds stacked against them. In spite of having no access to firearms they refused to give in without a fight.
Three British ex-soldiers, early in the month, were picked up from the water, after jumping overboard, because of the intensity of the attack they found themselves under from Somali pirates.
Spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Liu Jianchao, said “Over twelve hundred Chinese merchant ships have passed through the gulf this year. Seven were attacked".
China will now join other international warships in the gulf in a concentrated effort to put a stop to the ever growing tide of pirate attacks in the area. A Beijing newspaper reported that the Chinese navy was likely to send two destroyers and a supply ship to the area.
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