Ahmedabad, India (ANTARA News/AFP) - Indian police have detained 18 suspected Somali pirates -- the second batch to be taken into custody in Gujarat state in the past eight days, a senior officer said Monday.

Their fishing boat, carrying three men believed to be hostages, was carried onto the Gujarat coast after its engine failed, Jamnagar police chief Subhash Trivedi told AFP by telephone. (*)

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