Akhir 23, 1432, March 28, 2011, SPA -- India's navy and coast guard have captured 16 Somali pirates after a three-hour-long battle in the Arabian Sea, a navy spokesman said Monday. Also, 16 crew members who had been taken hostage by the pirates were rescued from a hijacked trawler off India's western Lakshadweep islands on Sunday, Captain Manohar Nambiar said. The pirates were using the trawler as a roving pirate base to launch attacks on passing vessels in the Indian Ocean, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
