The pirates have started to kill the hostages!!!!
Oh no... wait. Ummm... they appear to have started to kill themselves instead.
Someone really ought to explain that when you threaten to kill hostages, the point is usually not to shoot them and not your colleagues .
Then again... you probably were never that smart to begin with if you went into piracy as a career!
Three Somali pirates die in hijacked Ukrainian vessel_English_Xinhua
NAIROBI, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Three Somali pirates have died in a shootout following the differences over what to do with the seized Ukrainian ship with crew members, arms and tanks aboard, a regional maritime official confirmed on Tuesday.
Andrew Mwangura of the East Africa's Seafarers Assistance Program said the three died on Monday night as they were guarding the MV Faina over the misunderstanding on whether to release the arms cargo that included 33 T-72 tanks and 20 crew members.
"A misunderstanding erupted between the moderate and radical pirates aboard the ship prompting a shootout that left three of them dead," Mwangura told Xinhua by telephone.
"The moderates want to give in but the radicals don't want this to happen. The U.S. naval ships are very close and there is panic among the pirates," said Mwangura.