Hostages kill 2 pirates, retake ships
Posted: August 15, 2009 at 6:52 a.m.
Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time, it wasn't pirates who launched the attack, it was Egyptian fishermen who had been held hostage for four months and who killed two brigands and took others captive as they regained control of their vessels.
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