2 hijackers of Darfur plane surrender in Libya (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Wed, 08/27/2008 - 6:34am

In this image from Libyan television the hijacked Boeing 737 Sudanese airliner sits at the remote desert airstrip in Libya's Sahara desert oasis of Kufra Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008.<br /><br />The hijackers of the plane that took off from Sudan's Darfur region were releasing passengers Wednesday a civil aviation official said.<br /><br />The hijackers commandeered the Boeing 737 jetliner, which was carrying 95 passengers and crew, soon after it took off Tuesday from the southern Darfur town of Nyala, not far from a refugee camp that the Sudanese military attacked Monday.<br /><br />The hijacked airliner belongs to a private company, Sun Air, the Sudanese civil aviation authority said. (AP Photo/Libyan TV via APTN)AP - Two hijackers who commandeered a jetliner from Sudan's Darfur region and diverted it to a remote desert airstrip in southern Libya surrendered Wednesday after a 22-hour standoff, an airline official said.




 

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