Libyan 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 US and Libya agree compensation deal ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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