Date:22/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/22/stories/2008112260641100.htm

National

Cracking down

— Photo: AP

For safer seas: Somali pirates in the custody of the Puntland police in Bassaso, Somalia, on Friday. Ministers of Puntland, a self-declared autonomous area, told journalists that they had many Somali pirates in their detention centres.