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16:24, August 18, 2007 |
An important part of the passengers on board the hijacked passenger aircraft of the AtlasJet which was heading for Istanbul from the northern Cyprus, managed to flee from the plane at Antalya Airport in southern Turkey on Saturday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Sources were quoted as saying that Turkish security forces began releasing elderly passengers and children on board the plane as a result of negotiations with two hijackers after the plane was landed at the airport for refuelling.
Meanwhile, other passengers rushed to the gates to flee from the plane. An important part of them managed to get out, said the sources, adding that some passengers were injured.
Sources also said that the hijackers are still holding nine passengers and two crew members as hostages.
The hijackers wanted to fly the plane to Iranian capital city of Tehran after it took off from the Ercan Airport in Nicosia in northern Cyprus at 07:15 a.m. local time (0415 GMT), according to the report.
One of the hijackers was speaking Arabic and had a knife and the other was carrying a package which he claimed to be a bomb, Anatolia reported.
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