Hijacking Ends in Sudan With All Hostages ReleasedAll the hostages in the hijacked Ethiopian plane were released Friday and the university students who seized the plane with grenades and pistols are now in the custody of Sudanese police, Sudanese Information and Communication Minister Ghazi Salah al-Din Atabani said."All of them (hostages) have been released. The hijackers will be tried according to international laws," Atabani said. The plane is now under the control of the Sudanese authorities, the minister added. The hijackers earlier freed 11 women and children, but held 40 others on board as the plane sat on the tarmac at the Khartoum airport. The students hijacked the plane Thursday on a domestic flight from Bahir Dar, capital of the northern state of Amhara, to Addis Ababa, international airport security officials told Xinhua. After the plane landed safely at Khartoum, the students announced that they wanted to seek political asylum abroad and were waiting for talks with the United States or British embassy officials in Sudan, officials added. |
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