Malta steal ends peacefully as Gaddafi loyalists surrender

A organisation member helps a warrant to disembark from a Afriqiyah Airways A320 after it was hijacked from Libya on Friday. Pic/AFP

Valletta: Hijackers armed with a grenade and pistols forced an airliner to land in Malta on Friday afterwards liberated all their hostages unscathed and surrendered, after dogmatic their faithfulness to Libya’s late personality Muammar Gaddafi. 

Television cinema showed dual group being led from a aircraft in handcuffs.

The primary apportion of a little Mediterranean island, Joseph Muscat, tweeted “hijackers surrendered, searched and taken into custody”.

The Airbus A320 had been on an inner moody in Libya on Friday morning when it was diverted to Malta, 500 km (300 miles) north of a Libyan coast, after a male told a organisation he had a palm grenade.

A Libyan radio channel reported it had oral by phone with a hijacker who described himself as conduct of a pro-Gaddafi party.

Gaddafi was killed in an overthrow in 2011, and Libya has been racked by biased assault since.

Buses were driven onto a tarmac during Malta International Airport to lift divided 109 passengers, as good as some of a crew.

Television footage showed no signs of onslaught or alarm. After passengers had left a plane, a male quickly seemed during a tip of a stairs with a plain immature dwindle imitative that of Gaddafi’s now-defunct state.

Libya’s Channel TV hire pronounced one hijacker, who gave his name as Moussa Shaha, had pronounced by phone he was a conduct of Al-Fateh Al-Jadid, or The New Al-Fateh. Al-Fateh is a name that Gaddafi gave to September, a month he staged a manoeuvre in 1969, and a word came to weigh his entrance to power.

In a tweet, a TV hire after quoted a hijacker as saying: “We took this magnitude to announce and foster a new party.”

Earlier, a Malta airfield management pronounced all puncture teams had been dispatched to a site of what it called an “unlawful interference” on a airfield tarmac.

Earlier, Malta’s primary apportion Joseph Muscat pronounced in a tweet that there was a “potential steal situation” involving an inner Libyan moody that was diverted to Malta and that emergency operations are underway during a airport. 

“Informed of intensity steal conditions of a #Libya internal moody diverted to #Malta. Security and emergency operations station by -JM,” a premier pronounced in a post from his central account.

Airport officials pronounced a Afriqiyah Airways A320 moody has 118 passengers on board.

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