Sudan Plane Hijackers Surrender To Libya Officials


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News Article by AFP posted on August 27, 2008 at 17:16:10: EST (-5 GMT)

Sudan Plane Hijackers Surrender To Libya Officials

TRIPOLI (AFP)-- The hijackers of a Sudanese airliner surrendered to Libyan authorities Wednesday, several hours after all passengers on board were freed, a Libyan official told AFP.

The plane had been forced to land in a remote oasis in the Libyan desert Tuesday after the two attackers, said to be Darfur rebels, hijacked the plane shortly after take-off from Darfur's main city of Nyala on a flight to Khartoum.