26 August 2008
Kampala — An unnamed Ugandan national is one of 96 passengers of a Sudanese plane that was hijacked forced to land in Libya.
Agency reports indicate that the hijackers have freed all the passengers but are still holding six crew members, Libya's aviation authority said.
The airliner was seized on Tuesday after leaving Sudan's war-battered Darfur region for Khartoum and was forced to land at the remote Sahara desert oasis of Kufrah.
Libya's Civil Aviation Authority said 95 passengers had been on the Boeing 737/200, all of them Sudanese except two Egyptian police officers, two Ethiopians and one Ugandan.
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