Who says you need a fancy sonic blaster or a high-priced Israeli security team to thwart Somali pirates? A group of around Egyptian fishermen apparently escaped from their high-seas captors the old-school way, overpowering the pirates and seizing their weapons.
Reuters has the scoop on how it went down, plus a quote from "an associate of the pirates" (nice!), who told the agency the Egyptians made a run for it after seizing the pirates' weapons. "The two Egyptian ships sailed away after a fight with my friends," said the associate, who gave his name to Reuters as Farah. "We took a boat and rescued one who was injured and pushed overboard.""
Two pirates were apparently killed in the melee.
Of course, the escape could have been borne of desperate measures. As the BBC notes, the two Egyptian fishing vessels were captured four months ago along with an Italian tugboat -- which was freed after a ransom was paid.
[PHOTO MONTAGE: Wikimedia]
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