Thread: Italian cruise ship fires on Pirates!

Not sure if you guys have seen this yet?




Italian Cruise Ship Fires on Pirates

By NICOLE WINFIELD
, AP
posted: 1 HOUR 53 MINUTES AGO
comments: 1210
filed under: Pirates News, World News

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ROME (April 26) — An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with the bandits.
Six men in a small, white Zodiac-type boat approached the Msc Melody at about 1730 GMT Saturday and opened fire with automatic weapons, Msc Cruises director Domenico Pellegrino said. They retreated after the security officers returned fire and sprayed them with water hoses. The ship continued its journey with its windows darkened.

We started a thread about this in the 8 o'clock hour this morning, here:
http://www.cruiselinefans.com/msc-cr...sc-melody.html (Pirates Attack MSC Melody!!!!)

There are also individual posts on a couple of other related threads.

But, that doesn't mean we don't appreciate you reporting it - we do! We often do miss things, and it's great when our members post news of things happening in the world of cruising... we can't possibly catch everything ourselves, though we do put a lot of effort into trying to find as much as we can. So - don't stop. Keep on posting ! Maybe someone will see your post when they don't see ours.

Thanks again for posting about this - Your contributions are truly appreciated. It's our contributing members who really make this site!