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| EgyptAir hijacker arrested: Cyprus officials | ||
| 2016-03-30 | ||
| [DAWN] A hijacker who seized an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Cyprus has been detained, Cypriot government front man Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. How in this day and age do you walk onto an aircraft wearing a boom belt?
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! ," Christodoulides said on Twitter, without providing further details. An EgyptAir passenger plane flying from Cairo to Alexandria was hijacked on Tuesday and diverted to Cyprus, where it landed at Larnaca airport on the south coast, Cypriot police and Egyptian civil aviation authority officials said. The suspected hijacker surrendered to authorities at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, Cypriot authorities said. A man emerged from the aircraft and then walked across the tarmac with his hands up to two awaiting counter-terrorism coppers, an AFP correspondent reported. They laid him on the ground and searched him for around two minutes before taking him away. "Its over," Cyprus's foreign ministry said in a tweet.l
Police told the court in Larnaca that 58-year-old Egyptian Seif al-Din Mohammed Mostafa faces possible charges of hijacking, kidnapping people with the aim of taking them to an unknown destination, reckless and threatening behavior and offenses that breach the anti-terror law. Police prosecutor Andreas Lambrianou said that the suspect told police: "What’s someone supposed to do when he hasn’t seen his wife and children in 24 years and the Egyptian government won’t let him?" | ||
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