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The ship is the Navy of China to prevent the attack Somali pirates in the Italian merchant ship, reported AFP on Thursday, February 26, with reference to the Chinese media.
  In the Gulf of Aden from the Chinese helicopter destroyer "Haikou" noticed two light boats of pirates near the Italian merchant vessel shedshemu under the flag of Liberia. According to the Chinese agency Xinhua, in order to deter the pirates, the Chinese helicopter took to just two shots from the tank signal. The name of the merchant vessel is not reported.
Associated Press notes that this is the first collision with a Chinese ship by Somali pirates since December 2008, China sent to the coast of Somalia, a squadron of three ships to combat pirates.
Note that the Somali pirates in Gulf of Aden against the ships of Russia, EU, India, South Korea, China, Saudi Arabia. In 2008, in the Gulf of Aden have been over a hundred of pirate attacks, more than 40 of which culminated in captures of merchant ships.