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Sudanese hijackers give themselves up
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 27 - 08 - 2008

Two men who hijacked a Sudanese plane in Darfur
and forced it to fly to Libya have given themselves up to authorities
there, according to dpa.
The two earlier released all 87 passengers but kept six of the
crew hostage, according to, Libyan state television which announced
their surrender.
The hijackers, members of a splinter group of the Sudanese
Liberation Army (SLA), had demanded the Boeing 737 be refueled and
allowed to leave for Paris.
They made no immediate political demands, saying they would do
this once in Paris, the television report said. The two were
understood to have negotiated via the aircraft's pilot.
The released passengers left for Sudan later Wednesday on a Libyan
flight.
The hijacked plane belonging to the private Sudanese airline Sun
Express was seized Tuesday on a flight from the southern Darfur town
of Nyala to the Sudanese capital Khartoum when it was diverted to al-
Qafra airport in the Libyan desert.
The hijackers released the passengers on Wednesday after several
of them fainted from the heat and a lack of oxygen in the aircraft.
Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Ugandans were among those on board.
"We spent a terrible night in this aircraft," one of the freed
passengers was quoted as telling Libya's JANA state news agency.
The hijackers said they were members of an SLA splinter group led
by Abdelwahid Nur, who lives in French exile. Nur told the Arabic
news channel al-Jazeera they did not belong to his group.
Rebel groups have been battling Arab militias and Sudanese
government troops in Darfur since 2003. Some 200,00 people have died
in the conflict.
Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi has made several invitations to the
warring parties to hold peace talks in Libya.


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