(SomaliNet) Regional officials said on Thursday that the French navy has arrested eight suspected pirates and handed them over to authorities in the breakaway Somali region of Puntland.
Puntland presidential adviser Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade said French marines in the Gulf of Aden arrested the men when their patrol intercepted two boats on Wednesday.
\"French officials onboard a warship off Somalia waters handed over eight suspected pirates to the Puntland administration on Thursday,\" he said.
Puntland\'s deputy fisheries minister Abdukadir Muse Yusuf said: \"The pirates were on board two small boats when the French military arrested them. They dropped all their weapons in the water before they were caught.\"-AFP
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