Chinese Sailors Fight Off Pirates with Beer Bottles and Molotov Cocktails

Imagine if they had had guns:

Keeping low to avoid being shot, a sailor lights a Molotov cocktail before throwing it at Somali pirates trying to board his ship.



He and his crewmates were expecting trouble and had prepared dozens of the makeshift grenades to repel an invasion.

Their cargo vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Aden by pirates using speedboats and armed with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.

The attack occurred a day after Beijing said it was considering sending warships to the area to help battle piracy.

Despite their best efforts the nine pirates clambered aboard after tying up alongside.

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