Two airplane hijackers were returned to the Chinese mainland from Taiwan on Tuesday.
Yang Mingde and Lin Wenqiang, who hijacked a passenger plane from the mainland to Taiwan in 1993 and 1994, were handed over at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday in the Mazu Island, off the east coast of Fujian Province, to officers from Shandong Provincial Public Security Bureau.
The two hijackers arrived at Fuzhou, capital of Fujian, at around 1 p.m. under police escort aboard a ship and would fly to Shandong later.
No more details are available so far from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
The Red Cross organizations of the mainland and Taiwan signed an agreement in 1990 on returning suspects and criminals back and forth.
Yang and Lin were on a list of nine airplane hijackers who Taiwan had planned to send back to the mainland in 1999. However, their return was delayed because they were accused of assaulting people in Taiwan.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan began to return airplane hijackers in 1997.
Source: Xinhua
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