Sudanese hijackers surrender
Two men who hijacked a Sudanese airliner have surrendered after releasing all the passengers.
The airliner, with 95 people on board, was seized on Tuesday after leaving Sudan's war-torn Darfur region for Khartoum.
The Boeing 737/200 was forced to land at the remote Sahara desert oasis of Kufrah in southeastern Libya.
Mohamed Shlibek, head of Libya's aviation authority, said: "The two hijackers were transported to one of the halls at Kufrah airport after giving themselves up."
The hijackers first released the passengers and two crew members, but kept six crew hostage while negotiations continued.
The pilot told Libyan officials earlier that the hijackers were from a branch of the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM), a Darfur rebel group.
He said they wanted the plane to be refuelled so they could fly on to meet their leader Abdel Wahed Mohammed al-Nur in Paris.
But Nur's faction strongly denied the hijackers were its members.
Another SLM faction that signed a 2006 peace deal with Khartoum said the passengers on the hijacked plane had included seven of its officers, three of them members of a transitional Darfur regional government.
Darfur has been riven by conflict since a rebellion against Khartoum's rule broke out more than five years ago. International experts say more than 2.5 million Darfuris have been driven from their homes and 200,000 people killed. Sudan puts the death toll at about 10,000.
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