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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Sudan plane hijackers surrender

Two hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have given themselves up in the desert town of Kufra.
The surrender comes almost 24 hours after they seized the plane, shortly after it left Nyala in Darfur.
The crew have also been freed - earlier all 95 passengers on board the Sun Air Boeing 737 had been released.
There are some reports that the hijackers were members of a Darfur rebel group but this was strongly denied by the group's leader.
"The hijackers surrendered without any violence and the crew are safe and sound," a Libyan official said, according to the AFP news agency.

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