I used icepick to take Somali pirate hostage’ says sailor
“I was thinking what to do. I was thinking how to save my life. I was lost. I was confused. I think captain also confused. I saw his movements,” Mr Reza said. “But captain, I think, all the time was playing with the pirates.” Mr Reza persuaded the pirate leader to go below decks with him, where the other crew members were hiding.
“I convinced him. I told him, ‘Trust me. I am Muslim. You are Muslim. Trust me, Abdul. I am from Bangladesh. You are from Somalia. So we are brothers. Anyhow, I convinced him,” he said. “[The] engine room was dark because ship was shut down.”
Mr Reza, a slight man, said the chief engineer jumped the teenage pirate, and he piled on to help, stabbing the pirate in the hand with an icepick. “I saw the pirate lying on the floor and chief engineer on his back with the knife. He was having hard time to control him. I jumped over the pirate and stabbed him and the chief engineer also stabbed him in the back.”