No Azerbaijani citizens aboard hijacked Egyptian aircraft
By Amina Nazarli
There are no Azerbaijani citizens aboard the hijacked Egyptian
aircraft, Spokesperson for Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Hikmet
Hajiyev told Trend.
An EgyptAir Flight 181 passenger plane with 56 passengers, 7 crew
and one security officer has landed in Cyprus after being hijacked
by a man wearing a suicide belt.
The plane was on a scheduled journey from Alexandria to Cairo when it veered off course this morning.
Sources said a passenger claiming to wear a bomb belt demanded
the aircraft to be diverted to Larnaca, otherwise he would explode
the belt.
After the aircraft landed at the airport in Larnaca airport, the
hijacker released all the people onboard except five foreign
passengers and the crew.
Greek Sky TV channel reported that the hijacker of the Egyptian aircraft has asked for a political asylum in Cyprus.
The hijacker of the А320 aircraft has been named as Egyptian Ibrahim Samaha, RIA Novosti reported.
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