We had to rush to save our lives for our state was panic. Everybody was shouting. Everybody was raising slogan against the militants here, and the hospital was full of the mourners, full of the victims' families and friends and all of them. I really can't tell you how the people were trying to save their lives. Everybody was so panic, the doctors, the victims, the families, the friends. Everybody was panic there.
For the first time, military personnel from a warship have stormed another vessel while Somali pirates were trying to
hijack
it and have freed the crew. Our East Africa correspondent Peter Greste has been following the story from Nairobi.
According to commander John Harbour of the European naval task force, pirates boarded a contained ship called the Ariella as she sailed along the Somali coast earlier today. The Ariella was part of a group transit, a
convoy
ships that move along a corridor with warships placed to strategic points. This time the strategy worked. The EU scrambled a helicopter which spotted pirates on the deck. They in turn called in a Danish warship, sailing under a NATO flag. And by the time the special forces arrived, the pirates had
vanish
ed.
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