Русская версияLibyan officials say the hijackers of a Sudanese airliner have
released all passengers.
A spokesman for the civil aviation
authority said, however, that the crew members were being kept on
board. The hijackers, believed to be Darfur rebels, took over the
Sun Air Boeing 737 on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after it took off
from Nyala, Darfur's largest city. It was bound for the capital,
Khartoum, with some 100 people on board. Libyan authorities allowed
the plane to land at Kufra military airport in Libya's southeast
after it ran short of fuel. The hijackers had demanded that the
plane be flown to Paris. The hijackers claim to belong to the
Sudanese Liberation Army, whose exiled leader Abdel Wahid Mohammed
Nur lives in Paris. Nur has denied any connection with the
hijacking.
(Deutsche Welle)
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