Plane hijacking ends in Canary Islands
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania and flown to the Canary Islands, where security forces raided the plane and arrested a suspect, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.
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Mohamed Ahmed, one of the passengers from the hijacked Air Mauritania passenger plane, speaks to journalists at the airport in Las Palmas on the Canary island of Gran Cararia, Spain, in the early hours of ...Comment
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended today when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokeswoman said.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands _ A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down.Comment
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A daylong hostage siege ended early yesterday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.
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A Mauritanian pilot made a rough landing so passengers and crew could overpower a hijacker, Spanish officials say.
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A Turkish plane was hijacked on Tuesday as it traveled from Tirana, Albania to Istanbul, Turkey, according to a Turkish Airlines spokesman on Turkish television.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens surrendered early today and all the captives have been freed, Greek police said.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania, but the incident ended after the plane landed in the Canary Islands, where it was raided by security forces and a suspect was ...Comment
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.
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Rescuers found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain's Canary archipelago, emergency services officials said.
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Spanish authorities rescued more than 200 would-be migrants on Saturday from a decrepit fishing boat found drifting off the Canary Islands, officials said.
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Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania  plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat  up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary  Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Feb. 16 -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said...
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The Spanish authorities detain 176 illegal immigrants who tried to reach the Canary Islands by ship.