The passenger plane was hijacked on Tuesday after leaving war-torn Darfur and has been forced to land in Libya, Sudanese and Libyan authorities said. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRIPOLI - THE hijackers of a Sudanese airliner surrendered to Libyan authorities on Wednesday, several hours after all passengers on board were freed, a Libyan official said.
Sudanese hijackers from hardline Darfur rebel faction
THE hijackers of a Sudanese plane with more than 100 passengers on board have said they are from a hardline Darfur rebel group, the director of Libyan airport where the aircraft stopped said on Wednesday.
The hijackers, who had not previously identified themselves or made any demands except for fuel, have said they belong to the Sudanese Liberation Army faction of Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur, who lives in Paris, and apparently want to fly there, said the director of the Kufra military airport in southeastern Libya.
'They have now surrendered,' the official said from the airport in Kufra, a remote desert oasis in southeastern Libya, where the plane was forced to land on Tuesday.
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 with 87 passengers on board.
An airport official had said earlier that the hijackers were demanding a flight plan to Paris and fuel. -- AFP
